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It's not proof, it's a different kind of assertion. Legolas Send a noteboard - 26/09/2015 10:16:50 AM

View original postOne liberal supports another, and it's confirmation, but anyone who offers a datum you don't like in a casual conversation must source his every claim like it's a published thesis?

If I gave the impression that I considered RT's reply a satisfying answer to my question to TR, that was not intentional. I asked that question because his quoted number of 70% is very different from the numbers I've seen myself. As you saw in our recent discussion on illegal immigration, I'm not too lazy to go verify things for myself if I doubt them, but if the facts and figures I can find strongly contradict what the other person is claiming, then I do ask which sources they are using, to see if there might be an explanation for the disparity.

RT's reply was a more subjective kind of assertion, I'm not taking it as proof overriding eiter TR's quoted poll numbers or those I saw myself, but merely as a welcome affirmation that plenty of moderate conservatives can still see this whole thing in perspective. Which is again a subjective statement, yes, I'm aware.

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It's not proof, it's a different kind of assertion. - 26/09/2015 10:16:50 AM 509 Views

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