RE: Moon is part of Mars
June 10, 2019 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 12:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 10, 2019 at 11:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 10, 2019 at 11:24 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: can’t believe you still didn’t.
*shrug* Nothing for me to cave about. I gave you figures and - implicitly - the opportunity to dispute them. You declined.
And, just for my own morbid curiosity, can you tell me which of the following statements is made less credible by the addition of 'full stop'?
-Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, full stop.
-The atomic number of aluminium is 13, full stop.
-Herman Melville died in 1891, full stop.
-Beef is meat from cattle, full stop.
-The Amazon River is in South America, full stop.
Boru
These examples you cite in your own defense are rhetorically fundamentally different from the statement you attempt to defend. In the examples you cite, the statement itself is not indispute. So while the "full stop"s that follow may exhibit a rather unpleasantly emphatic speaking style, it serves as rhetorical dead wood that plays no substantive part, and can thus be ignored.
In what you attempt to defend, the statement itself is the core of contention. So the full stop plays the rhetorically discreditable role of attempting to browbeat the opposition side into agreement without first offering any reason why the original statement is in any way creditable.
