Huh, your dogs and cats example is almost the opposite of how I use “steelmanning”. I use steelmaning to mean something like “find the assumptions that make this conclusion valid”. What you describe in that example I’d call… “finding the good”? “finding correct assumptions?” I guess I don’t have a short word for this. TBC I think finding the good in arguments is a great thing to do, but not what I mean by steelmanning, or at least not the central example.
This might have something to do with the scope of application. I mostly use the steelman concept in arguments about, like, public policy. It doesn’t feel like a fit for someone describing me in particular.
Huh, your dogs and cats example is almost the opposite of how I use “steelmanning”. I use steelmaning to mean something like “find the assumptions that make this conclusion valid”. What you describe in that example I’d call… “finding the good”? “finding correct assumptions?” I guess I don’t have a short word for this. TBC I think finding the good in arguments is a great thing to do, but not what I mean by steelmanning, or at least not the central example.
This might have something to do with the scope of application. I mostly use the steelman concept in arguments about, like, public policy. It doesn’t feel like a fit for someone describing me in particular.
Finding the cruxes?