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Comment author: gjm 10 December 2015 06:20:45PM 0 points [-]

It feels as if you may be trying to correct a mistake I'm not making. I agree that definitions matter. As I said two comments upthread:

for the avoidance of doubt, I am not taking "X is a disagreement about definitions" to imply "X is trivial" or anything of the kind.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 December 2015 06:56:40PM 1 point [-]

It feels as if you may be trying to correct a mistake I'm not making

Nope, you just have all your defensive shields up and at full power :-) I am agreeing with you here.

Comment author: gjm 10 December 2015 09:13:22PM 0 points [-]

Full power is more dramatic than that :-).

My experience is that if someone begins "Well, yes" rather than, say, just "Yes", their intention is generally something less positive than simply agreeing with you. ("Well, yes. What kind of idiot would need that to be said explicitly?" "Well, yes, but you're forgetting about X, Y, and Z." "Well, yes, I suppose so, but I don't think that's actually quite the right question.")

Comment author: Lumifer 10 December 2015 10:30:35PM 1 point [-]

I'll work on augmenting my expressions of enthusiasm :-)

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