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Donald Ian Rankin

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3. What do you think "the debate is over" means?

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 06:26 AM

Apr 2013

To me it has connotations of "people have stopped debating", and indeed of "everyone now agrees" - which is clearly not the case.

"A strong piece of evidence as to which side is *right* has emerged" is not the same thing, and would only be if people never held positions that were wrong.

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