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In reply to the discussion: Trayvon Martin was also suspended for graffiti, previously found with 12 pieces of women's jewlery [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)It's not a question of "belief." You represented something as a fact. You can't know that it is a fact.
Nice try on the epistemology question, but this is your game. These are not angels on a head of pin issues, but your own logic of wait and see played against your consistently inconsistent posts in this thread.
You want to wait for facts that we can know. You've never seen this report. You don't know under what conditions the officer described these items. You don't know if he was being precise or approximating (indeed, it is very doubtful that the officer had these items tested - are you claiming the officer had these items tested? how could you possibly know that?). You even acknowledged downthread that the officer likely cannot tell whether the article is a genuine diamond (yet you seem to believe he can eyeball silver on the fly!). Now, to escape this charge, you pretend it is all so much theologianist epistemologizing, aw hem, does the Miami-Herald exist, har har har.
Yes, my dude, the Miami-Herald exists, and we know that as a fact with far more certainty than that you know there were diamonds and silver in Mr. Martin's bag. In fact, you don't fucking know that, so stop lying about it.