I also note that I was lodging a defense of “not leaping straight to judgment” far more than I was lodging a defense of Brent, i.e. I think the text above is much more consistent with “Duncan wants us to track multiple possible worlds consistent with the current set of observations” than with “Duncan has a strong and enduring preference for believing one of those worlds.”
This is exactly the sort of nuance that is precious, and difficult to maintain, and I am still glad I tried to maintain it even though it ultimately turned out that the null hypothesis (Brent is an abuser) proved correct.
To add the voice of someone who is not a “well known” or community landmark, the reading I got was one of pedantry, not defense. I read it in the same way as you might say “Wow, it would be great if we had 10,000 apples, but I am not sure that our 4+x apples sums to that many. Let’s keep open the possibility that x is 4 or 30″.
Hopefully tacking this on makes it
Easy for you to see how people might read this
Easy for other people to share that same support (or to disagree, I just think the former is more likely here)
I also note that I was lodging a defense of “not leaping straight to judgment” far more than I was lodging a defense of Brent, i.e. I think the text above is much more consistent with “Duncan wants us to track multiple possible worlds consistent with the current set of observations” than with “Duncan has a strong and enduring preference for believing one of those worlds.”
This is exactly the sort of nuance that is precious, and difficult to maintain, and I am still glad I tried to maintain it even though it ultimately turned out that the null hypothesis (Brent is an abuser) proved correct.
Yeah that’s why I added the primary source, I went and read it and then realized that was what you were doing.
To add the voice of someone who is not a “well known” or community landmark, the reading I got was one of pedantry, not defense. I read it in the same way as you might say “Wow, it would be great if we had 10,000 apples, but I am not sure that our 4+x apples sums to that many. Let’s keep open the possibility that x is 4 or 30″.
Hopefully tacking this on makes it
Easy for you to see how people might read this
Easy for other people to share that same support (or to disagree, I just think the former is more likely here)
I’ll take it. =)
Like, the person adversarially quoting me above wants me to be seen as a rape apologist, and I’ll take “pedant” over that.
Haha, I was being pedantic when I said that. Replace it with “You were being lawful, which I respect the hell out of” for a better compliment