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But she was saying if A. As in, questioning A...
No she wasn't. She already unequivocally stated A.
My friend has a UK driver's licence.
If she has a UK driver's licence, she must be at least 17.
Now, can you honestly claim I'm sceptical about whether she has a driver's licence or whether she's over 16?
Please Google modus ponens before coming back again. She even used it in the classical form.
"If that's true" pretty clearly implies skepticism. She wasn't stating a theorem. She was conversing.
You're not prepared to change your mind, you'd rather contradict literally thousands of years of logical thinking. 2+2=3. Got it. I really really wasted my time talking to you.
I read what I read. I'm not saying it's definitely what she meant, but if it's how I interpreted it, it may be what she meant. Language after all is largely fluid, and not a mathematical equation. But sure, just insult me instead.
OK, you're a right winger who spends his time online defending racist liars who post inflammatory lies stirring up hatred and violence in my country and you won't listen to reason and literally deny logic.
Your reasoning is that that is the phrasing in formal logic. My point is how people converse doesn't necessarily follow formal logic. So that may not be what she meant. I can't say she definitely meant what I said- but that is the impression I got. And as I said if it's how I as a fluent English speaker interpreted it, then it may also be how she meant it.
You missed this bit:
you’re a right winger who spends his time online defending racist liars who post inflammatory lies stirring up hatred and violence in my country
And I think I know why you're spending the best part of a week online defending racist liars.
What am I supposed to say "no you insulting and attacking me isn't true". Like Chomsky said "The person who throws the mud always wins. Because there's no way of responding to such charges." All I said is the way I read it they're saying "if this is true" which is inherently questioning it. That may not be what they meant, I can't read their mind. But yes go ahead and insult me, there's not point in me denying it and you know that, that's why you said the insult.
I insulted you because you invited me to and I found it so hard to resist, but actually, I just said
Which was all very factual. So no, you're not claiming it isn't true because I kept it so factual, I didn't feel you needed any more insulting than the straight up facts about our conversation. But then I afterwards went for an insult for which the evidence wouldn't stand up in court for here:
And here you go again with the invitation:
(Because it's true, of course), and because you find it so hard to follow really, really simple, millennia-old logic like "A is true. If A is true B is true. Hence B is true", I'll spell the conclusion out for you: you support racist liars online because you yourself are a racist liar.