Remember, counterargument is your friend! Tuning definitions towards the needs of specific audiences will help us work through the the "caesuras" and cognitive dissonance we feel at the onset of controversy. "Getting proleptic" with different perspectives helps us find limit cases, which make for useful and persuasive definitional arguments. Search for examples that run "counter to" the claim you're testing. Test the stakes of the claim: who is \"invested\" in the argument? The counterargument?

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