“I think you are being insufficiently truth-seeking” is definitely a thing I would want people to say to me sometimes. Sometimes I think dumb things (like rationalizing) and it’s obvious to other people but I have no idea.
If you know the person you’re talking to well, have a shared understanding of what is meant by the phrase, and have a strong sense that you are working together and it won’t be taken negatively, then I can see this working out. But I think there are a lot of situations that lack this shared context and that are more adversarial. It seems to me like you can often get across similar info in a more specific way. For example, if you think someone is rationalizing you can focus on the underlying issue and hope to “shake them out of it” by walking through the logic of the issue, or you could identify a more specific “meta-issue” if you want to go to the meta-level. That would depend on exactly how they are “rationalizing”, although again if you have a strong common understanding of what “truth-seeking” means, perhaps that is the best way to describe the meta-issue in your case.
“I think you are being insufficiently truth-seeking” is definitely a thing I would want people to say to me sometimes. Sometimes I think dumb things (like rationalizing) and it’s obvious to other people but I have no idea.
If you know the person you’re talking to well, have a shared understanding of what is meant by the phrase, and have a strong sense that you are working together and it won’t be taken negatively, then I can see this working out. But I think there are a lot of situations that lack this shared context and that are more adversarial. It seems to me like you can often get across similar info in a more specific way. For example, if you think someone is rationalizing you can focus on the underlying issue and hope to “shake them out of it” by walking through the logic of the issue, or you could identify a more specific “meta-issue” if you want to go to the meta-level. That would depend on exactly how they are “rationalizing”, although again if you have a strong common understanding of what “truth-seeking” means, perhaps that is the best way to describe the meta-issue in your case.