I think one of the goals of the overall piece was to convey the meta-norm of, like … being open to requests to slide in a direction?
So in my world, Dumbledore was making no mistakes when he said “I saw Draco unconscious,” because he was in a standard frame/conforming to ordinary word usage. Harry then made a bid for drawing the boundary between “what we’re going to count as inference” and “what we’re going to count as observation” in a lower, more fundamental place, and Dumbledore consented, and the conversation shifted into that new register.
I don’t think someone’s doing something wrong if they say “I saw you make a super angry face!” as long as, if their conversational partner wants to disagree that the face was angry, they’re willing to back up and say, okay, here’s more detail on what I observed and why I concluded it meant “angry.”
(Or, in other words, I agree with what you’re saying toward the end of your comment.)
I think one of the goals of the overall piece was to convey the meta-norm of, like … being open to requests to slide in a direction?
So in my world, Dumbledore was making no mistakes when he said “I saw Draco unconscious,” because he was in a standard frame/conforming to ordinary word usage. Harry then made a bid for drawing the boundary between “what we’re going to count as inference” and “what we’re going to count as observation” in a lower, more fundamental place, and Dumbledore consented, and the conversation shifted into that new register.
I don’t think someone’s doing something wrong if they say “I saw you make a super angry face!” as long as, if their conversational partner wants to disagree that the face was angry, they’re willing to back up and say, okay, here’s more detail on what I observed and why I concluded it meant “angry.”
(Or, in other words, I agree with what you’re saying toward the end of your comment.)