Unsurprisingly, you've said something I often think, but articulated it a lot more clearly :)
With regard to #1, I often feel the same way (and sometimes am on the other side). I think, presumably, that most people, if they considered, *don't* think they know all the answers, but just communicate in a way that can seem that way.
Eg. a generalisation could be the easiest way of making a point. "but foos are generally bar" could be a way of saying "But some foos are bar, I think that tendency is insufficiently explicated in the conversation so far"
Eg. They're sharing they're collected experience to date for the common edification, but have yet to consider exactly how they synthesised it (adn may or may not relish help on that point).
Eg. They've learned that most people only listen if they're declarative and have social cues to indicate that they don't really mean it.
Often, I hear conversations that go:
P1: Blah blah blah details blah P2: Blah sweeping contradiction blah P3: [long argument about sentence #2, in which it transpired person #2 was thinking aloud, and it only *sounded* like they had a large emotional commitment to their position]
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With regard to #1, I often feel the same way (and sometimes am on the other side). I think, presumably, that most people, if they considered, *don't* think they know all the answers, but just communicate in a way that can seem that way.
Eg. a generalisation could be the easiest way of making a point. "but foos are generally bar" could be a way of saying "But some foos are bar, I think that tendency is insufficiently explicated in the conversation so far"
Eg. They're sharing they're collected experience to date for the common edification, but have yet to consider exactly how they synthesised it (adn may or may not relish help on that point).
Eg. They've learned that most people only listen if they're declarative and have social cues to indicate that they don't really mean it.
Often, I hear conversations that go:
P1: Blah blah blah details blah
P2: Blah sweeping contradiction blah
P3: [long argument about sentence #2, in which it transpired person #2 was thinking aloud, and it only *sounded* like they had a large emotional commitment to their position]