I tried composing a response a day or two ago, but had difficulty finding the words.
In a nutshell, I thought you should start with last two paragraphs, boil that down to a coherent and specific claim. Then write an entirely new essay that puts that claim at the top, in an introductory/summary paragraph. The rest of the post should be spent justifying and elaborating on the claim directly and clearly, without talking about gnomes or deploying the fallacy of equivocation on the sly, but hopefully with citation to peer reviewed evidence and/or more generally accessible works about reasoning (like from a book).
Thanks for the comment. That’s really helpful. So I should basically start with the idea, present it more clearly (no gnomes) and try to provide peer reviewed evidence or at least some support.
I tried composing a response a day or two ago, but had difficulty finding the words.
In a nutshell, I thought you should start with last two paragraphs, boil that down to a coherent and specific claim. Then write an entirely new essay that puts that claim at the top, in an introductory/summary paragraph. The rest of the post should be spent justifying and elaborating on the claim directly and clearly, without talking about gnomes or deploying the fallacy of equivocation on the sly, but hopefully with citation to peer reviewed evidence and/or more generally accessible works about reasoning (like from a book).
Thanks for the comment. That’s really helpful. So I should basically start with the idea, present it more clearly (no gnomes) and try to provide peer reviewed evidence or at least some support.