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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 15 February 2013 04:58:00PM *  2 points [-]

I'm sorry: for reasons I do not understand, I misunderstood what you were referring to with 'option A'. Your response made perfect sense and mine did not.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 15 February 2013 09:58:14PM 0 points [-]

You thought I meant "flat contradiction"?

That didn't seem like an accurate characterization of option A to me, so I gave a concrete example:

Flat contradiction would be "you're wrong".

and a concrete example of the option A alternative:

"That's wrong. Blah di blah isn't blah di blee, it's hooty hooty."

It would have been better to be more concrete.

Was that the issue?

I feel that in these more personal discussions abstract terms gets used, and each side is picturing a very different part of the spectrum for their concretes.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 15 February 2013 10:54:14PM 0 points [-]

I think it was that I kind of short-circuited 'option 1' into meaning 'the first option mentioned', and from there 'what the guy said in the first place'. This is not what you were referring to by 'option 1', and even though it's an understandable error, I still should have been able to pick up on it from the context of the parent and grandparent comment to yours.