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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (23273)7/8/2006 9:15:30 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 541376
 
I just think there are lots of unreasonable ideas that don't graduate to "flat-earthdom".

So where do you think the threshold of flat-earthdom is? At what point do we say that proposition A has so far outlived its supportability that it qualifies? Is the threshold a point in a temporal continuum set at, say, a generation or a century? Or a majority continuum set at, say, 90% ? Or a level of proof continuum, set at, say, plausible deniability? Or maybe it's an attitude thing--stubborness, resistance to change, close-mindedness, ignorance, preservation of assets, etc. At what point do you think that the term applies?
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