Category: Insistence

• March 11, 2015

  Defining insistence

  A first go at a definition of insistence: Insistence is the firmly held conviction that the relevant agents would be best off were they to act based on (i) the belief that P is the right (or best) way to do things or (ii) the belief that Q is the right (best, most accurate, most coherent, etc.) view…
• January 24, 2015

  How does insistence manifest itself?

  In what typical statements does insistence manifest itself? I know how it is (and must be and cannot be otherwise). This is how we’ve always done things around here (and this is how we’ll continue to do things around here). That’s how I was taught (and I’m just doing what I was told: you should…