"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Kim W5TIT" wrote:

(snip) Fact is, though, you did open yourself
up with the statement, "Few people today
(especially boys and men) have not learned
code, or at least played around with it, at
some point in their lives." (snip)


Is that sentence what this is all about, Kim (and Dee)? If so, lets
forget
about debate rules and discuss how to write instead. I wrote a paragraph
which contained a lead, supposition or hypothesis, and a conclusion. The
"fact" mentioned in the lead of that paragraph is in the conclusion of
that
paragraph, not in any single sentence leading up to that conclusion. The
sentence quoted above is supposition leading to the conclusion. The
conclusion of that paragraph, and the "fact" mentioned in the lead of that
paragraph, is, "...most adults today are familiar enough with code to know
whether they have any real interest in it." Based on what I wrote in that
paragraph, and in subsequent messages, I do believe that conclusion to be
fact.

And the conclusion of this message is, if that sentence is indeed the
root
Dee's objection, we've spent several days arguing over two entirely
different things - that sentence in Dee's case and the overall conclusion
in
my case.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/


Well, I am actually *supposing* that is what it is that Dee is basing the
major part of the discussion on. Dee? (PS--it doesn't matter a whoot for
me, I think I'm not so driven by statements as I am concepts).

Kim W5TIT