Wait, sorry, on further thought, I don’t think I understand why this doesn’t break the Fifth Guideline (“[...] behave as if your interlocutors are also aiming for convergence on truth”)?
I understand that guidelines are not rules, and that you wrote an additional 900 words explaining the shorthand summary of the Fifth Guideline. But if the Fifth Guideline isn’t trying to get people to not say this kind of thing, then I’m not sure what the Fifth Guideline is saying? Is my hypothetical mean person in the clear because he’s sticking to the object-level (“your arguments are bad”) and not explicitly making any claims about his interlocutor’s motivations (e.g., “you’re here in bad faith”)?
Wait, sorry, on further thought, I don’t think I understand why this doesn’t break the Fifth Guideline (“[...] behave as if your interlocutors are also aiming for convergence on truth”)?
I understand that guidelines are not rules, and that you wrote an additional 900 words explaining the shorthand summary of the Fifth Guideline. But if the Fifth Guideline isn’t trying to get people to not say this kind of thing, then I’m not sure what the Fifth Guideline is saying? Is my hypothetical mean person in the clear because he’s sticking to the object-level (“your arguments are bad”) and not explicitly making any claims about his interlocutor’s motivations (e.g., “you’re here in bad faith”)?