Keep concepts stable
When discussing a potentially difficult topic, it can be easy to have an idea be a poorly defined pointer to Concept-space. This is inevitable, and why we Use intentionally ambiguous naming to avoid restricting growing or uncertain ideas, for example.
However, even if there is ambiguity or uncertainty in a given section of Concept-space, we should still seek to keep that Words are pointers to concept-space stable. This allows us to avoid the Fallacy of compression.
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“Fallacies of compression also underlie the bait-and-switch technique in philosophy—you argue about “consciousness” under one definition (like the ability to think about thinking) and then apply the conclusions to “consciousness” under a different definition (like subjectivity). Of course it may be that the two are the same thing, but if so, genuinely understanding this fact would require first a conceptual split and then a genius stroke of reunification.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)