But I wonder if we are too concerned with the One True Map as opposed to an atlas of pretty good maps.
What's an example of people doing this?
I think one place to look for this phenomenon is when in a debate, you seize upon someone's hidden assumptions. When this happens, it usually feels like a triumph, that you have successfully uncovered an error in their thinking that invalidates a lot of what they have argued. And it is incredibly annoying to have one of your own hidden assumptions laid bare, because it is both embarrassing and means you have to redo a lot of your thinking.
But hidden assumptions aren't bad. You have to make some assumptions to think through a problem anyway. You can onl...
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