Changed to: “A common (implicit) hope is to exhaustively explore the tree of arguments and counterarguments, following a trail of higher-level disagreements to each low-level disagreement.”
I’m distinguishing between hoping to change your view about the root question by getting to each disagreement in turn and propagating the logical consequences of resolving it, or viewing each disagreement as an observation that can help refine intuition / arbitrate between conflicting intuitions.
Changed to: “A common (implicit) hope is to exhaustively explore the tree of arguments and counterarguments, following a trail of higher-level disagreements to each low-level disagreement.”
I’m distinguishing between hoping to change your view about the root question by getting to each disagreement in turn and propagating the logical consequences of resolving it, or viewing each disagreement as an observation that can help refine intuition / arbitrate between conflicting intuitions.