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Originally Posted by franalexes
WHAT? Is that it? Are you all done? Are you feeling okay? This is not like you. You're just going to conceed to Ila, (the fuzzy fur ball) and the fiesty Fran?
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One of the basic tenets of productive argument or discourse is an agreement on the meaning of fundamental terms. If that does not exist, there can be little or no progress toward achieving any sort of synthesis of ideas or, at minimum, clarification.
ila chooses to reserve for himself a personal definition of an established term. He makes an argument for why this is okay, but it is not one I believe works. Therefore, I truly do not know where to take the argument next. It has nothing to do with "conceeding" to him; I have not conceeded that his perspective is correct.
As for conceeding to you, Fran, I have no idea what it is to which you are referring.