Values Added: Rootin' Tootin' Edition (Amanda Marcotte & Erica Grieder)

[jimM47]

Originally Posted by stephanie

. . . Sulla's comment to which miceelf objected seemed to me to be trying to sidestep this by assuming as a given that all agreed that we were talking about a philosophical person, a child. . . .

I would read the statement not to assert that we are talking about something we all regard as a philosophical person, but to assert that we are talking about something we all understand the speaker to regard as a philosophical person. In my experience, assuming otherwise leads to discussion that is especially unproductive, even for the subject.