Ah. I have actually seen rationalists do this! And I think it works.
It’s faster than adding words like I think or may, but not much. It reads a little more oddly, but not much. So probably worth including in your vocabulary?
Tangentially, another rationalist grammatical quirk that I appreciate and have started to adopt is the use of ‘ever’ in positive statements, which I interpret to mean something like ‘yes but not often / not much’. For example: ‘I have ever met Jane Doe.’ or ‘She has ever eaten crêpes.’
Ah. I have actually seen rationalists do this! And I think it works.
It’s faster than adding words like I think or may, but not much. It reads a little more oddly, but not much. So probably worth including in your vocabulary?
Tangentially, another rationalist grammatical quirk that I appreciate and have started to adopt is the use of ‘ever’ in positive statements, which I interpret to mean something like ‘yes but not often / not much’. For example: ‘I have ever met Jane Doe.’ or ‘She has ever eaten crêpes.’