I call it something like correctly identifying the distinction(s) relevant to our contextually salient principles. That's more general and the emphasis is different, but it involves the same kind of zeroing in on the semantic content that you intend to communicate.
Sure, you can have principles like consequentialism, but why bring them up unless the principles themselves are relevant to what you're saying at this moment? Principles float in the conversational background even when you're not talking about them directly. Discussing the principle of the thing can be useful, but such talk is often subrelevant, so to speak, even when you're making use of said principle. ("Subrelevant" because everything is relevant to something... (read more)
I call it something like correctly identifying the distinction(s) relevant to our contextually salient principles. That's more general and the emphasis is different, but it involves the same kind of zeroing in on the semantic content that you intend to communicate.
Sure, you can have principles like consequentialism, but why bring them up unless the principles themselves are relevant to what you're saying at this moment? Principles float in the conversational background even when you're not talking about them directly. Discussing the principle of the thing can be useful, but such talk is often subrelevant, so to speak, even when you're making use of said principle. ("Subrelevant" because everything is relevant to something... (read more)