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Redbird (
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03:22 pm
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"We didn't do it" is a denial, not an incontrovertible fact.
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minnehaha.livejournal.com
2005-02-18 06:15 pm (UTC)
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I suppose it depends on what "we" and "it" refers to. Seems hard to make a blanket statement about the sentence.
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filkerdave.livejournal.com
2005-02-18 06:55 pm (UTC)
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Oh, I think
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yonmei.livejournal.com
2005-02-18 11:54 pm (UTC)
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Yes, exactly.
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timill
2005-02-19 03:27 am (UTC)
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And it's certainly not a refutation.
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zsero.livejournal.com
2005-02-20 05:03 pm (UTC)
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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!.
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