On Saturday 31 March 2018 10:16:13 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Rick Johnson > > <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday, March 30, 2018 at 8:59:16 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Wanna provide some competing information showing that other > >> languages are more used? > > > > Chris, here is how debate works: > > > > PersonA asserts X. > > > > PersonB demands evidence for X. > > > > PersonA either provides evidence for X, or X is rejected as > > hooey. > > PersonB provides evidence fox X. > > PersonA asserts that that evidence doesn't count because "it's > nothin' but hype". > > PersonC provides a different source of numbers supporting X. > > PersonA asserts that those numbers don't count either because most > of them are trolls or sock puppets. > > PersonD asks if PersonA has any of their own evidence to provide. > > PersonA snarkily responds that they don't need to provide evidence > because they didn't make the assertion, apparently oblivious to the > fact that they've actually made several assertions of their own over > the course of this. > > Do I have this right? This is how I understand debate works from > following this thread. I see the same pattern on the Flat-Earth > threads, so I think I have it right.
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