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Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
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Date: 
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:59:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

  Here's a question for the gallery...  In an argument, how does one refute this
claim:  "You're being defensive."
  Consider:  If you deny it, then you're confirming it (all the moreso if you
refute it with evidence!).  But if you agree to it (why, yes, I *am* defensive),
then you confirm it, too!


By being offensive.  Have you stopped beating your wife?

;p

James



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  Re: Finally--a use of public funding that I can really get behind!
 
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