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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by pmiller2 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @08:59PM (#25412671)
Sigh. You may not realize this, but when someone says "I am reasonably certain that X," they are not, in fact, generally asserting their certainty. They are, in fact, asserting X to be true.

So, to your "I'm confident that..." I also say: citation needed.

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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by dragonwriter on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:19PM (#25413499)
> You may not realize this, but when someone says "I am reasonably certain that X," they are not, in fact, generally asserting their certainty. They are, in fact, asserting X to be true.

No, they are claiming that they have a belief (implicitly, often, a justified belief) that X has a high probability of being true, unlike stating merely “X” which denotatively is a claim that X is true without qualification.

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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by pmiller2 on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:23AM (#25415789)
If it is a justified belief, then asking them to justify it is not a problem then, is it?
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