A cruxy point doesn’t have to be important, the whole question being considered doesn’t have to be important. This is an unfortunate connotation of “crucial”, because when I’m pointing out that the sky is blue, I’m usually not saying that it’s important that it’s blue, or that it’s important for this object level argument to be resolved. It’s only important to figure out what caused a simple mistake that’s usually reliably avoided, and to keep channeling curiosity to fill out the map, so that it’s not just the apparently useful parts that are not wild conjecture.
I think it’s relative. A crux is crucial to a question, whether the question is crucial to anything else or not. If you’re pointing out the sky is blue, that’s only a crux if it’s important to some misunderstanding or disagreement.
I’m with Nisan. “Crucial” is simply the proper and common term that should be used instead of the backformation “cruxy”.
A cruxy point doesn’t have to be important, the whole question being considered doesn’t have to be important. This is an unfortunate connotation of “crucial”, because when I’m pointing out that the sky is blue, I’m usually not saying that it’s important that it’s blue, or that it’s important for this object level argument to be resolved. It’s only important to figure out what caused a simple mistake that’s usually reliably avoided, and to keep channeling curiosity to fill out the map, so that it’s not just the apparently useful parts that are not wild conjecture.
I think it’s relative. A crux is crucial to a question, whether the question is crucial to anything else or not. If you’re pointing out the sky is blue, that’s only a crux if it’s important to some misunderstanding or disagreement.
I’m with Nisan. “Crucial” is simply the proper and common term that should be used instead of the backformation “cruxy”.