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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (300712)	9/4/2024 2:50:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358405

Silence construes consent. "Interesting" sentence. I think I know what you meant, perhaps "conveys." I think it's common for a speaker, unchallenged, to assume consent in that situation because that would provide a win for him. But the set of possibilities is greater than one. Silence could also mean, for example, boredom, exasperation, the courtesy of offering the last word, or simply running late for a meeting. If one has no objection to x, One agrees with x The world of ideas is richer and more subtle than that. Definitely not binary. Were it not so, there would not be some many different words for ways of having no objection to something. Context, have you read and or discussed the speakers other comments. There were a number of threads running through the discussions, each having its own sub-context. But, upon rereading some of it just now, and given your tendency toward dispositional closure, I guess you meant the resolution of who is stupid. Did you ever do Meyers Briggs. You are surely a "J."