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[redbird]

"We didn't do it" is a denial, not an incontrovertible fact.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I suppose it depends on what "we" and "it" refers to. Seems hard to make a blanket statement about the sentence.

B

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think redbird is right. By itself, it's a claim, not proof.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly.

[timill]

And it's certainly not a refutation.

Tim

[zsero.livejournal.com]

I'm missing all of the context for this, but if you mean merely to lament the media habit of saying "refute" when they mean "rebut", then YES! YES! YES!.