I sometimes round this off in my head to something like “pure decouplers think arguments should be considered only on their epistemic merits, and pure contextualizers think arguments should be considered only on their instrumental merits”.
The proper words for that aren’t decoupling vs contextualizing, it’s denotative vs enactive language. An orthogonal axis to how many relevant contextual factors are supposed to be taken into account. You can require lots of contextual factors to be taken into account in epistemic analysis, or require certain enactments to be made independent of context.
Note, the original post makes the conflation I’m complaining about here too!
It might just make more sense to give this one up to word inflation and come up with new words. I’ll happily use the denotative vs. enactive language to point to this thing in the future, but I’ll probably have to put a footnote that says something like (what most people in the community refer to as decoupling vs. contextualizing.
The proper words for that aren’t decoupling vs contextualizing, it’s denotative vs enactive language. An orthogonal axis to how many relevant contextual factors are supposed to be taken into account. You can require lots of contextual factors to be taken into account in epistemic analysis, or require certain enactments to be made independent of context.
Note, the original post makes the conflation I’m complaining about here too!
It might just make more sense to give this one up to word inflation and come up with new words. I’ll happily use the denotative vs. enactive language to point to this thing in the future, but I’ll probably have to put a footnote that says something like (what most people in the community refer to as decoupling vs. contextualizing.