• XM34@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    That’s absolutely fair. But it’s single sentence that can be proven incorrect by a single example and that’s what I just did.

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      If I casually say “Money is the root of all evil”, and you respond with an example of an evil deed that was committed for reasons other than money, have you:

      A. Disproven me with FACTS and LOGIC

      OR

      B. Disputed the literal interpretation of something that was not meant literally or absolutely in the first place

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        Then what exactly am I to take it as? What level of argument is this? “Na ah, you can’t disagree with me, because I was just using a commin saying and don’t want people to actually take my words at face value”?