Principlev1PR-067
When disagreement persists despite shared facts, trace…
When disagreement persists despite shared facts, trace it to conflicting definitions rather than continuing to debate evidence or conclusions.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Meaning as Receiver Construction (meaning constructed by receivers) and Linguistic Structuring of Thought (language structures thought). The 'high availability' example shows that apparent factual disputes often mask definition collisions. The principle prescribes a specific debugging procedure when discussion becomes unproductive.