Wallace Cohen

"The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly."

"Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking."

"Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?"

"This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't."

"Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the…"

"Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form."