Been thinking about the role and utility of polite fictions, and the resulting complications. Different people inherit different sets of them and not many people know how to navigate multiple competing sets of fictions in a tactful way
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Any tips on the sort of good faith questions which are productive in navigating the plurality of polite fictions?
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interestingly I think a lot of it boils down to tone, which is of course notoriously difficult to convey online. Some cues are things like, "I like what you're getting at with X", "it seems to me like you're saying Y, is that correct? but if Y, then Z?" - 1 more reply
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