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What I know or don't know is irrelevant, because what matters is that your statement rests of bringing in external knowledge/assumptions, so it's clearly not what the commenter is saying (alone).


Using external knowledge to interpret the meaning of sentences is how every communication works.


Indeed, but accusing someone of saying something based on unstated external knowledge/assumptions is the original problem here. They just needed to say words to the effect of "taken with point X what you say implies Y" and it would be fine and much less accusatory.


I don't find "it sounds like you're saying" on a rather neutral technical topic to be very accusatory, personally.


Fair point. I should perhaps have said putting words in someone's mouth. Anyway far too much on this side point, I'll bow out here.




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