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Your assertion could be correct 49.9% of the time and still not invalidate the proposition.


What is the propostition? I read it as "That which is adequately explained by stupidity is not (or is rarely) malice".

Otherwise it is a not a statement that can be objectively "factual" and is as such not a proposition.


Would anyone care about discussing some 'rule' with barely greater explanatory power than flipping a coin? People aren't going to adjust their thought patterns, in practice, for such an improvement.




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