I was referring to that block of text that you have encoded, I decoded it and there you state the assumption that your interlocutor will lie. And no I am assuming they are true which is why I said “we assume it’s true”. I would also keep anecdotal evidence to a minimum in this type of discussion because I would want my interlocutor to be able to check every step of my reasoning. And anecdotal evidence for a positive occurrence of phenomenon does not discount the existence of a negative occurrence. I say there exists such a thing as X and the counterargument is but this one time there was Y. Do you have any arguments as to why my counterarguments or something in a similar vein couldn’t happend?
[EDIT] Richard says he meant the encoded text to only mean that the reader thinks up, but doesn’t present the false story. This is a plausible interpretation of the text and since I can’t know which one was meant I will assume it was the more charitable one and retract these comments.
I was referring to that block of text that you have encoded, I decoded it and there you state the assumption that your interlocutor will lie. And no I am assuming they are true which is why I said “we assume it’s true”. I would also keep anecdotal evidence to a minimum in this type of discussion because I would want my interlocutor to be able to check every step of my reasoning. And anecdotal evidence for a positive occurrence of phenomenon does not discount the existence of a negative occurrence. I say there exists such a thing as X and the counterargument is but this one time there was Y. Do you have any arguments as to why my counterarguments or something in a similar vein couldn’t happend?
[EDIT] Richard says he meant the encoded text to only mean that the reader thinks up, but doesn’t present the false story. This is a plausible interpretation of the text and since I can’t know which one was meant I will assume it was the more charitable one and retract these comments.
As before, I was not imputing any dishonesty to the hypothetical reader reflexively thinking up a hypothetical counterexample to a generalisation.