but “what sort of norm conflicts might you run into in the wild, that will make discourse more confusing and difficult?”.
And if both of two purported norm-sets are wrong (i.e., fail to create accurate maps) in different ways, then taxonomizing possible norm-sets along that axis will be even more confusing. If some bids for contextualization are genuinely clarifying (e.g., pointing out that your interlocutor is refuting a weak man, and that readers will be misled if they infer that there do not exist any stronger arguments for the same conclusion), but others are obfuscating (e.g., appeals-to-consequences of the side effects of a belief, independently of whether the belief is true), then lumping them both together under “contextualizing norms” will confuse people who are searching for clarity-creating norms. (In future work, I want to “pry open the black box” of relevance, which I’m relying on for a lot despite being confused about how it works.)
What surprises me is the combination of your concern for this here, but your praise of Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization
The part of you that was surprised by this will be even more surprised by my next planned post, an ultra-”contextualizing” reply to “Meta-Honesty”! (But it should be less surprising when you consider the ways in which my earlier “Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her” is also ultra-”contextualizing.”)
And if both of two purported norm-sets are wrong (i.e., fail to create accurate maps) in different ways, then taxonomizing possible norm-sets along that axis will be even more confusing. If some bids for contextualization are genuinely clarifying (e.g., pointing out that your interlocutor is refuting a weak man, and that readers will be misled if they infer that there do not exist any stronger arguments for the same conclusion), but others are obfuscating (e.g., appeals-to-consequences of the side effects of a belief, independently of whether the belief is true), then lumping them both together under “contextualizing norms” will confuse people who are searching for clarity-creating norms. (In future work, I want to “pry open the black box” of relevance, which I’m relying on for a lot despite being confused about how it works.)
The part of you that was surprised by this will be even more surprised by my next planned post, an ultra-”contextualizing” reply to “Meta-Honesty”! (But it should be less surprising when you consider the ways in which my earlier “Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her” is also ultra-”contextualizing.”)