Re:Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors emb...
by munk-a on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:20PM
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That's quite accurate - instead of trying to state any reasoning that would be refutable your statement above doesn't guarantee anything while implying a lot - thus it's pretty unassailable by logic. The implication is rested on a very relaxed statement and will continue to imply even while counter examples are raised.
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Re:Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors emb...
by BeetleB on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:03PM
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Actually, I made a very refutable statement:
> Successful sanctions are the exception.
To refute, you just need to look at all sanctions, and enumerate the successful ones, and show the proportion is at least half.[0]
If "all" sanctions is onerous, a decent sample (e.g. "sanctions in the last 30 years") would still have weight.
But simply giving an example of something that the claimant clearly agrees with - that's not even close to a refutation.
[0] Clearly one can disagree on what success means, but then nothing in society can yield to logic