The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151677   Message #3549475
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Aug-13 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Subject: RE: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
I wasn't complaining, and as I said I don't see the words as anything to worry about, but it makes more sense to spell out the disagreement. If I have misrepresented your meaning that was a mistake, and I apologise.

I think it can be fair to identify what we see as implications of what someone says which they might not like, or which we see as involving self-contradictions, but we should never present those as things they have actually asserted, which I think is what you mean there. That does happen quite a lot - it's a very common debating trick.