It's not that the discussion is simply derailed. It's that it can't even take place until both parties agree on the terminology. The word "right" is packed with all sorts of assumptions on the speaker's part that the listener may not agree with. If that is the case, the discussion devolves into a discussion about those assumptions, which in turn devolve into more discussions about more assumptions.
>> The whole point of the discipline is that every position must be argued for and questioned and not just asserted.
That's the problem. Nearly every word is packed with meaning, which must be unraveled and argued for with... more words. The cycle never ends.
>> The whole point of the discipline is that every position must be argued for and questioned and not just asserted.
That's the problem. Nearly every word is packed with meaning, which must be unraveled and argued for with... more words. The cycle never ends.