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Shreyas Sampat recently said, in a response to Jeremiah Genest:

I will say, “I’m not interested in arguing whether or not this proposition is true; rather, I want to think about the world under the assumption that it is.”

Which is a great example of what is sometimes called “feminist epistemology.” Sometimes there are things you can’t prove one way or the other (for example: God exists), but you still want to base further conjecture off of it. So you accept a few facts as given (or say, “assuming X, then Y”) and keep on plowing ahead.

I think most RPG theory discussions would benefit from a similar attitude, without people struggling to undermine each others’ assumptions so often. Look, instead, at the interesting results that occur “if and when X is true.”