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In reply to the discussion: Those who demand that everyone "just ACCEPT that Oswald did it"... [View all]stopbush
(24,785 posts)when used in different contexts.
Q: what's the definition of the word "can?" It means being able to do something, and it also means a tin container. No one in their right mind would insist that the definition of "can" being a tin container be used in the context of discussing whether one can or can't do something.
As far as your Zimmerman example, it's like this: if the police claimed that Zimmerman's gun killed Martin but the forensic evidence proved his gun didn't kill Martin, the police claim would have been falsified from a scientific perspective. Had the police claimed that they had Zimmerman's gun in custody and it turned out that they had planted a gun that wasn't Z's, they would be planting falsified evidence.
Same word, two different contexts.
Why you refuse to just admit that you weren't aware of the definition of the word "falsified" when used in a scientific context and move on is beyond me. You're sounding like the people who deride the theory of evolution by saying, "it's only a theory," ie: when the context of the word theory means "conjecture," when the word means "a body of facts/evidence" when used in a scientific context.
And your now trying to say that the discussion of the Dictabelt evidence (that is where all this started) was not a scientific discussion is just plain wrong, as I've pointed out in previous posts.