David_Gerard comments on Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality - Less Wrong
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It occurs to me that verbal overshadowing of feelings may be some of what people are complaining of when they consider explaining to constitute explaining away. It's a mechanism by which the explanation does, in fact, overshadow the feelings.