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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8933420" data-attributes="member: 42582">On the issue of critique of something one is not very familiar with - what's the point? As in, why do it? If you're not familiar with it, what is the point of you forming a critical orientation towards it? And who is the audience for the criticism written in such a fashion?Relatedly - if I ask someone to explain something to me, and following their explanation something seems silly or inadequate about the explained thing, I tend to assume that that means either (i) I misunderstood some part of the explanation, or (ii) the person explaining left something out, whether for brevity, or for simplicity, or because they assumed I would fill the gaps in their explanation, or for whatever other reason. So in such a case, before I turned around and told the explainer that the thing they've explained seems silly or inadequate, I'd try and confirm whether (i) or (ii) (or perhaps both) is the case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8933420, member: 42582"] On the issue of critique of something one is not very familiar with - what's the point? As in, why do it? If you're not familiar with it, what is the point of you forming a critical orientation towards it? And who is the audience for the criticism written in such a fashion? Relatedly - if I ask someone to explain something to me, and following their explanation something seems silly or inadequate about the explained thing, I tend to assume that that means either (i) I misunderstood some part of the explanation, or (ii) the person explaining left something out, whether for brevity, or for simplicity, or because they assumed I would fill the gaps in their explanation, or for whatever other reason. So in such a case, before I turned around and told the explainer that the thing they've explained seems silly or inadequate, I'd try and confirm whether (i) or (ii) (or perhaps both) is the case. [/QUOTE]

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