Everybody who lives in modern society understands what money is, and what prices are. You don’t need to explain those to explain capitalism.
You want the OOP to be accurate, so you want “explanation” to mean something that it doesn’t normally mean. Your attempt doesn’t even succeed by your own criteria:
What does “rot” mean?
What is “stuff”?
What is a “threat”?
What is “writing”?
and so on, ad infinitum.
(figurative) demonstrations can be term-free explanations.
An example is not an explanation. If it were though, I could “demonstrate” prices and money by taking you to a shop and showing you how buying something works. So I don’t think you have a coherent idea of what terms are allowed in explanations, and hence what an explanation actually is.
The reason, I would guess, that you are content with your explanations, is because they have got to the point where they claim something that you consider a critical feature of capitalism, namely some form of violence. If you claim: “You can’t explain X without Y” and your criterion for an adequate explanation is that the explanation contains Y, then sure, you’ve stated a tautology. But it’s just the same kind of self-congratulatory claim like, “you can’t explain communism without it sounding dystopian” and having as an (unstated) criterion for an explanation to be adequate, “‘explain’ the ‘necessary’ oppression of a communist system” (scare quotes deliberate), then complaining that every explanation offered is inadequate.
In particular, the violence you want to be in any explanation is not a definitional part of capitalism. That is, even the harshest critics of capitalism don’t say that it’s part of the definition and initial objective; if it is inseparable from capitalism, it is an emergent property. If you think an emergent property of some system is so important that it must be mentioned in any explanation of the system, you need to make a very strong argument.
There is a difference between understanding the term “computers” and understanding computers.
It sounds like you’re just talking about explanations with different levels of detail. But in those terms, the fact that you haven’t given any coherent way of determining when an explanation is adequate translates to not having given any coherent way of determining when an explanation is sufficiently detailed.
Note that emergent properties are only going to come up in more detailed explanations. An explanation of computers which omits the emergent property of how they may suffer from deadlock or thrashing is perfectly fine for most explanations. The more detail you aim to give, the more likely you need to cover such things, but it would be complete nonsense to dismiss an explanation lacking them as “not an explanation”.
Everybody who lives in modern society understands what money is, and what prices are. You don’t need to explain those to explain capitalism.
You want the OOP to be accurate, so you want “explanation” to mean something that it doesn’t normally mean. Your attempt doesn’t even succeed by your own criteria:
and so on, ad infinitum.
An example is not an explanation. If it were though, I could “demonstrate” prices and money by taking you to a shop and showing you how buying something works. So I don’t think you have a coherent idea of what terms are allowed in explanations, and hence what an explanation actually is.
The reason, I would guess, that you are content with your explanations, is because they have got to the point where they claim something that you consider a critical feature of capitalism, namely some form of violence. If you claim: “You can’t explain X without Y” and your criterion for an adequate explanation is that the explanation contains Y, then sure, you’ve stated a tautology. But it’s just the same kind of self-congratulatory claim like, “you can’t explain communism without it sounding dystopian” and having as an (unstated) criterion for an explanation to be adequate, “‘explain’ the ‘necessary’ oppression of a communist system” (scare quotes deliberate), then complaining that every explanation offered is inadequate.
In particular, the violence you want to be in any explanation is not a definitional part of capitalism. That is, even the harshest critics of capitalism don’t say that it’s part of the definition and initial objective; if it is inseparable from capitalism, it is an emergent property. If you think an emergent property of some system is so important that it must be mentioned in any explanation of the system, you need to make a very strong argument.
It sounds like you’re just talking about explanations with different levels of detail. But in those terms, the fact that you haven’t given any coherent way of determining when an explanation is adequate translates to not having given any coherent way of determining when an explanation is sufficiently detailed.
Note that emergent properties are only going to come up in more detailed explanations. An explanation of computers which omits the emergent property of how they may suffer from deadlock or thrashing is perfectly fine for most explanations. The more detail you aim to give, the more likely you need to cover such things, but it would be complete nonsense to dismiss an explanation lacking them as “not an explanation”.