I still don’t understand your intended message. I know that my description doesn’t reflect the idea you wanted to communicate: but it never got through, and the above comment doesn’t help.
I made a couple of changes that might improve things a bit, summarizing particularly at the end.
I’m reflecting on my experience trying to bridge the inferential distance between myself and people with whom I am arguing, and I’m trying to suggest that we should re-frame our discussions with non-rationalists in a manner that shows we’re on their side, that we share their goals, in order to make our contrarian positions more easily accepted.
I still don’t understand your intended message. I know that my description doesn’t reflect the idea you wanted to communicate: but it never got through, and the above comment doesn’t help.
I made a couple of changes that might improve things a bit, summarizing particularly at the end.
I’m reflecting on my experience trying to bridge the inferential distance between myself and people with whom I am arguing, and I’m trying to suggest that we should re-frame our discussions with non-rationalists in a manner that shows we’re on their side, that we share their goals, in order to make our contrarian positions more easily accepted.