Epistemic legibility: being easy to argue with is a virtue
I didn't see it mentioned, I think I "epistemic literacy" is the other side of the coin. I see examples of people demanding citations for reasoning that is part of a work, of people just not understanding something, or of only really being able to blindly follow based on province or authority without trying to reconcile back to what they know.<p>If there is going to be a standard for legibility, there should be one for literacy too - it's especially important when learning from a debate where readers and writers (or sources and sinks) switch roles, to understand how different positions are engaging with each other's arguments, not just how they are making them