Jon, THE VERY FIRST LINE OF MY POST,
"I offer it as a plausible theory, and it is not my own."

Anything about that you don't get Jon?
Think of the theory as a red cup that belongs to someone other than me.
It is not mine, OK?

I then go on to explain to Lox how debating should be done.
A general rule.

My theory, the one I am putting up for discussion not one that actually was proposed by me, as compared to whatever theory Lox was putting up.

Imagine that I borrowed that other person's red cup, showed it to Lox and said, " I have got a red cup. Do you like it?"