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title: Levels of Heresy
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date: 2012-06-08
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techne: :wip
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episteme: :speculation
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You may be familiar with PG's [disagreement hierarchy][LW disagreement], ranging from DH0 (name-calling) to DH7 (improve the argument, then refute it). It's used to illustrate how substantial a disagreement really is - are you attacking just superficial aspects or the central point?
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That's fine for a bunch of rationalists, but what about debates that *matter*? How do you denounce filthy heretics and blasphemers of all that is holy?
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Why, you use the Heresy Hierarchy!
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## HH0: Out-Group
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Not even worth engaging. Your enemy clear belongs to no in-group of yours, won't be confused with you, has, in fact, nothing at all in common with you.
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Send the missionaries at once.
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**Example**: Catholics and Pagans.
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## HH1: Succession Dispute
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**Example**: Shiites and Sunnites.
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## HH2: Canonical Disputes
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**Example**:
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## HH3: Theological Differences
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## HH4: Semantic Differences
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**Example**: Homoousians and Homoiousians. (Yes, that's one letter of difference.)
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This is the level where even a Grammar Nazis thinks that you're a bit nit-picky.
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