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LanternWaste

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8. You set yourself up with a flawed premise...

Reply to KPN (Original post)

Tue Jul 3, 2018, 02:19 PM

Jul 2018

called the fallacy of the excluded middle.

There is no need to choose one trait over the other... we have a wide pool from which to choose both. Allow yourself to realize that.

Unless your narrative forces you into the either/or premise you set before us. In which case, by all means ignore relevance in favor of fallacy.

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Many American Revolutionaries were much younger than you might think [View all] KPN Jul 2018 OP

It's time to back Democrats. NCTraveler Jul 2018 #1

x1000 peggysue2 Jul 2018 #4

That too for sure. KPN Jul 2018 #7

Very loaded sentence that is very dependent on the specificity of the topic. NCTraveler Jul 2018 #9

I read a lot of comments here at DU criticizing KPN Jul 2018 #10

There was no such thing as "teen age" back then. haele Jul 2018 #2

That was not young in those days JI7 Jul 2018 #3

GOTV for Democrats candidates in 2018. n/t emulatorloo Jul 2018 #5

Average life expectancy in the colonies in 1776 was roughly 35 years. Scurrilous Jul 2018 #6

You set yourself up with a flawed premise... LanternWaste Jul 2018 #8

I'm not doing that. In fact, I see it as the opposite KPN Jul 2018 #11