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This gets into something that I think derails a lot of debate when dealing with people of faith. Most people, including religious people, try to argue as if bot
by benaiah 13y ago
This gets into something that I think derails a lot of debate when dealing with people of faith. Most people, including religious people, try to argue as if both sides of the argument are starting with the same assumptions, when they're really not. If they accept the same premises for a specific argument, then sure, they can have a meaningful debate about it, but if they don't, and they very frequently don't when it comes to debates involving people of different faiths (including atheism for the sake of semantic convenience), then the debate will just be a shouting match. This idea is often referred to as presuppositionalism, that people have fundamentally different, and frequently irreconcilable, ways of looking at the world, and any argument where the arguers have different presuppositions is therefore futile.
This is relevant, because it seems that the system you propose would make presuppositions very explicit, which would help people with different presuppositions to realize why they are disagreeing instead of just yelling at each other till they go hoarse. It sounds like a very cool system, and I'd love to see it in action.
- anilgulecha 13y agoI think it was a long time ago that I discussed a similar tool with friends (essentially a way of mapping out an argument, and listing out premises/arguments/conclusions). The feedback I got most often: "Yeah that would be cool, but that feels like a chore, and I wouldn't really use it". I wish sawsay the best of luck, and some points to perhaps keep in mind: - Make the platform fun. This is going make or break the service -- at-least for popular use. - Spend a lot of time iterating/evolving the UX so what is essentially a hard task, is broken naturally into very simple parts.