I do agree that working examples are quite important (and that this is something authors should be encouraged to provide).
The issue I expect to be relevant to your past experience is different takes on which examples are valid.
(My impression is that it is often the case, esp. with discussions relating to internal mental states, that the author provides something that makes total sense to them, and me, but doesn’t make sense to you, and then you continuously ask for better/different examples when it seems like the underlying issue is that for whatever reason, the particular mental phenomena their referencing isn’t relevant to you.
How to resolve this seems like a different question that the rest of this thread is focusing on. But I think by this point a lot of people not-providing-you-in-particular-with-examples is because they don’t expect your criticism of their examples to be that useful.)
Oh, certainly this is a fair point. No argument there! But we can agree, I think, that “you say E is not an example of P, but I maintain that it is” is not at all the same thing as “you’re not addressing the core point”—yes?
I do agree that working examples are quite important (and that this is something authors should be encouraged to provide).
The issue I expect to be relevant to your past experience is different takes on which examples are valid.
(My impression is that it is often the case, esp. with discussions relating to internal mental states, that the author provides something that makes total sense to them, and me, but doesn’t make sense to you, and then you continuously ask for better/different examples when it seems like the underlying issue is that for whatever reason, the particular mental phenomena their referencing isn’t relevant to you.
How to resolve this seems like a different question that the rest of this thread is focusing on. But I think by this point a lot of people not-providing-you-in-particular-with-examples is because they don’t expect your criticism of their examples to be that useful.)
Oh, certainly this is a fair point. No argument there! But we can agree, I think, that “you say E is not an example of P, but I maintain that it is” is not at all the same thing as “you’re not addressing the core point”—yes?