# When Arguing Definitions is Arguing Decisions

(*epistemic status: experimental new format! Optimized for memetic power. Fun and useful refactorings of classic ideas about language.*)

(*note: this post was originally made as a slide deck and lives as a pdf* [*here*](https://theinexactsciences.github.io/docs/Arguing%20Definitions%20As%20Arguing%20Decisions.pdf)*. Color coding of ideas was inspired by* [*abramdemski*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CvKnhXTu9BPcdKE4W/an-untrollable-mathematician-illustrated) *and* [*turntroat*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xCxeBSHqMEaP3jDvY/reframing-impact)*. Since this is a bunch of images, the links don't work, and I've collected them all at the bottom of the post*)

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1.  *"Love that energy* [*Jaynes*](https://meltingasphalt.com/mr-jaynes-wild-ride/)*!"*
2.  [*Necessary and Sufficient*](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/necessary-sufficient/)
3.  [*Family Resemblance*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance)
4.  [*Words as Hidden Inferences*](https://www.readthesequences.com/Words-As-Hidden-Inferences)
5.  [*How an Algorithm Feels from the Inside*](https://www.readthesequences.com/How-An-Algorithm-Feels-From-Inside)
6.  [*A Human's Guide to Words*](https://www.readthesequences.com/A-Humans-Guide-To-Words-Sequence)
7.  [*View from nowhere*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_nowhere)
8.  *"*[*Al Capone has a point*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b8toOox1No)*"*
9.  [*Reality tunnels*](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/05/07/leaking-into-the-future/)
10.  [*Blind Men and the elephant*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant)
11.  [*Formal Logic*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_calculus#Proofs_in_propositional_calculus)
12.  [*Implication*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_implication_(rule_of_inference)#:~:text=In%20propositional%20logic%2C%20material%20implication,the%20other%20in%20logical%20proofs.)
13.  [*Proof trees*](https://leanprover.github.io/logic_and_proof/natural_deduction_for_propositional_logic.html)
14.  [*Rwandan Genocide*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide)
15.  [*Radio address given on April 30th, 1994*](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-address-the-situation-rwanda)
16.  [*Ghosts of Rwanda*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xS65zyT4D8)
17.  [*Machete Season*](http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=B9BA857AF6B59F8F858E0442281B85DF)
18.  *"I didn’t succeed in tracking down the original docs, but* [*this*](https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/7/refusing_to_call_it_genocide_documents) *interview has a lot of context and quotes that lay out a pretty solid case."*
19.  *"*[*From the Genocide Convention of 1948*](https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf)*, there are several more articles specifying things like how international courts are supposed to work, and what “punishment” entails."*
20.  [*General Romeo Dallaire*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_Dallaire)*, on the ground in Rwanda.*
21.  *"Just a year earlier the U.S had been badly burned with an* [*attempted intervention in a Somalian civil war*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993))*."*
22.  [*Conflict Is Not Abuse*](http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=A4BA90E4C5216B38AAA987D0DF344BB8)