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Comment author: David_Gerard 15 April 2012 09:03:08AM 3 points [-]

nyan_sandwich said that the Sequences contain not merely arguments, but knowledge. This implies a rather high level of agreement with the material.

Yesss ... the sequences are great stuff, but they do not reach the level of constituting settled science.

They are quite definitely settled tropes, but that's a different level of thing. Expecting familiarity with them may (or may not) be reasonable; expecting people to treat them as knowledge is rather another thing.