I appreciate your post, and I think you’ve been very hospitable, and I appreciate that as well. While I do have the habit of writing concisely, and believe in writing that way, I also have to admit that my original post was shorter because I was uncertain on how I would be received. By the way, I didn’t think that in your post you were being dishonest, in fact rather the opposite. You realized that there was probably some miscommunication and wanted to resolve it, and that’s exactly how dialogue should proceed. I felt that my post was interpreted more simply than I had intended because SimonF thought that my argument was obviously wrong. While it may be unsound, I didn’t think it was trivially unsound. I guess “strawman” is often an accusation of dishonesty, I just didn’t know what better term to use for “a more simple version of my argument is being counterargued than the argument I wanted to present”.
But I also want to thank you, again, for being hospitable and welcoming to your community. I’m still uncertain how this will go, I mainly joined because I want to learn more about induction, which is something that I shouldn’t have ignored before. I also read through many of the posts in the sequences, and this site comes closest to the “ideal” I’ve had before about my own life, and what I understand to be intellectual virtue.
I appreciate your post, and I think you’ve been very hospitable, and I appreciate that as well. While I do have the habit of writing concisely, and believe in writing that way, I also have to admit that my original post was shorter because I was uncertain on how I would be received. By the way, I didn’t think that in your post you were being dishonest, in fact rather the opposite. You realized that there was probably some miscommunication and wanted to resolve it, and that’s exactly how dialogue should proceed. I felt that my post was interpreted more simply than I had intended because SimonF thought that my argument was obviously wrong. While it may be unsound, I didn’t think it was trivially unsound. I guess “strawman” is often an accusation of dishonesty, I just didn’t know what better term to use for “a more simple version of my argument is being counterargued than the argument I wanted to present”.
But I also want to thank you, again, for being hospitable and welcoming to your community. I’m still uncertain how this will go, I mainly joined because I want to learn more about induction, which is something that I shouldn’t have ignored before. I also read through many of the posts in the sequences, and this site comes closest to the “ideal” I’ve had before about my own life, and what I understand to be intellectual virtue.