On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > although (a) to be fair, I covered those attempts with various disclaimers > explaining the situation, although (b) I'm puzzled by the disclaimers issue. > If you disclaim an action (those of you who claim that action statements > can be false) wouldn't the disclaimer always cause it to fail? You can't > have it both ways!
I agree with that. A disclaimed assertion is no longer an assertion. I argued as much when comex made eir OVERLOOKED allegation, but nobody seemed to agree with me at the time. Perhaps our criterion of illegality should be whether the message included intent to deceive, not absolute positive belief in the statement's truth. -root
