ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong
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I didn't use the word "personal". Of course he speaks about the position of the catholic church. In this case the position that the catholic church had in 1968 when he made his prediction.
Part of the idea of catholic faith is that something like the meaning of "respecting women" get's defined top-down.
That's not what I'm doing. I have no problem with using different definitions of terms depending on the text I'm reading. If you can only use one defnition and try to interpret what everyone is saying through that definition you are likely to misunderstand the position of people who disagree with you.
It's bad to have habits that make it hard to understand what people with different mindsets are saying. It allows you to have all those tribal beliefs of the cool people crowd without spending any conscious thought in rationally examining your beliefs.