Wouldn’t that be even worse? If we currently mostly don’t use good reasoning for individual truth seeking, but in at least occasionally use good reasoning to argue, wouldn’t developing a theory of arguing contribute to displacing that, resulting in even less good reasoning? Or do you think that reasoning would become better for truth seeking if it was freed from the other optimization goal of being good for arguing?
Wouldn’t that be even worse? If we currently mostly don’t use good reasoning for individual truth seeking, but in at least occasionally use good reasoning to argue, wouldn’t developing a theory of arguing contribute to displacing that, resulting in even less good reasoning? Or do you think that reasoning would become better for truth seeking if it was freed from the other optimization goal of being good for arguing?