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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2005-02-18 03:22 pm
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"We didn't do it" is a denial, not an incontrovertible fact.

[identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it depends on what "we" and "it" refers to. Seems hard to make a blanket statement about the sentence.

B

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I think [livejournal.com profile] redbird is right. By itself, it's a claim, not proof.

[identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, exactly.
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[personal profile] timill 2005-02-19 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
And it's certainly not a refutation.

Tim

[identity profile] zsero.livejournal.com 2005-02-20 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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!.