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Teeqoz on 24 February 2018
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Aura7541 said:
Teeqoz said:

If your entire disagreement was based on the fact that you thought I was talking about absolutely all formula racing tournaments, then we can put this discussion to rest - I was never talking about absolutely all of them (or even most of them). It seems like it's just a misunderstanding. Are we good then?

I was satisfied. Now, I'm even more satisfied, as it seems as we've cleared up the misunderstanding that was (part of) the core to our disagreement.

Though upon review of the earlier stages of our conversation, you had a different stance about grid girls and over time, I managed to change it even if just so slightly. IIRC, you said "Grid girls are not absolutely necessary for a formula racing tournament". No distinction. Just "a formula racing tournament". Or if you were arguing the entire time that you were not talking about absolutely all formula racing tournaments, then you made a critical error in not making that distinction earlier. In fact, you had several occasions to do that. You have this issue of lack of specificity on other arguments, too.

Cover all the bases. Rather than using an indefinite article, perhaps you should use a word like "certain" instead.

I didn't really change my stance, but maybe you got a clearer picture of what my stance actually was, which would make sense given we've written like 5A4 pages explaining to each other.

As it stands, the statement "grid girls are not absolutely necessary for a formula racing tournament" is valid because it uses an indefinite article. No more distinction is necessary. You shouldn't have assumed it went further than what was actually written. Not necessary for a formula racing tournament does not imply not necessary for any formula racing tournament, hence that was an unsound assumption of you to make.