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One way to slightly mitigate the difficulties of nuance in language when translating to formal arguments is to attwmpt to always steelman the argument. Afford it all the guarded language and nuance you can, and then formalize in premises and conclusion.

This would also make interaction much more civil as well, given so much proclivity to do the opposite (straw man).

It's not a perfect approach, but it helps. LLMs are quite decent at steelmanning as well, because they can easiky pivot language to caveat and decorate with nuamce.

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