what does it mean to allow an utterance to participate in the conversation
- / to land
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August 9th, 2025
- It’s a tricky question. Likely it’s somewhere on this spectrum, right?
- 1. not prevent me from uttering it in the first place
- 2. not immediately dismissing/rejecting it as irrelevant/wrong/confused
- 3. saying "okay, I guess you see it that way" but proceeding as if nothing had been said
- 4. proceeding in a way that accounts for the utterance
- 5. agreeing with it in a way that feels like it has really landed
- (there's also a way of "agreeing" with it that's actually a dismissal because it agrees as if the statement were already known (/ common knowledge) and therefore adds nothing)