Mind · Reasoning
Kinproxy
Another party's values, care or understanding are inferred from how far it resembles the judge
Definition
Mechanism
A judge attributes values, care or understanding to another party, such as a person, an animal, a system or an unfamiliar way of working, partly because of how far its form, manner or reasoning resembles the judge's own. Resemblance raises the attribution and unlikeness lowers it, so a familiar manner is credited with understanding it may lack, and an unfamiliar form is read as indifferent or uncomprehending. Resemblance used as a cue with independently supported relevance to the quality in that context is not an instance.
Invariants
- A judge attributes values, care or understanding to another party.
- The attribution draws partly on the other's resemblance or unlikeness to the judge, where that resemblance has no independently supported bearing on the quality.
Risks
Failure modes
Likeness read as care
a familiar, human-like manner is taken to show care or understanding.
Strangeness read as indifference
an unfamiliar form or way of reasoning is taken to show the absence of care or understanding.
Resemblance dismissed
every attribution that uses resemblance is discounted, including where its relevance to the quality in that context is independently supported.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference