Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all claims should be assumed to mean "in general"
By
Glad Rag Kraken
on February 09, 2007
Mainly to avoid pedantic and contrarian folks, like myself, dooming otherwise valid claims to the oubliette of poorly phrased claims.
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I'm not sure I agree. If something sounds too absolute, and people vote on it because they mean "in general" it encourages people to make absolute statements that are false, which encourages other people to think in absolutes which are false, and that can be harmful. Maybe we should learn to be careful about being explicit about things not holding true for everyone or all the time.
I strongly agree. I think that's the way the English language works.
i see Rachel's point but i think that needing to be explicit about universals and absolutes is a better direction to push, especially since claims that are more than 50 words long are not very liekly to be read carefully and most people wouldn't be able to come up with every exception when thinking up a claim anyway.
[who used to disagree]
OK, I agree, but only in general.
I agree too, in general, all things weighed equally, and without putting too fine a point it.