On: Cognitive Biases and the Human Brain

[coldtea]

>Wouldn't it be charitable to assume that they're putting forward a sub-optimal version of their argument, ie not the strongest version? (Thus, their argument could be made stronger.)

What the parent means is that we should treat what they say as if they meant the "strongest possible version".

So, parent doesn't mean "assume what they said was the strongest possible version" but "assume the strongest possible version of what they said".

[FabHK → coldtea]

Thanks both of you ^ for clearing this up. Makes sense now.

[FabHK → FabHK]

So, incidentally, this way of putting the rule provided a nice example of itself.