I didn’t downvote, but I’d guess that Lauren and perhaps others understood your “Anyone sophisticated enough to be following these discussions in the first place should be capable of grasping this point.” to mean something like “If you, dear interlocutor, were sophisticated enough then you’d grasp my point.”
(Not confident in this though, as this interpretation reads to me like an insult rather than a straw man.)
Huh, okay, thanks. fwiw, I definitely did not intend any such subtext. (For one thing, Publius did not themselves deny the relevant distinction, but merely worried that some other ppl in the general population would struggle to follow it. I was explicitly expressing my confidence in the sophistication of all involved in this discussion.)
I didn’t downvote, but I’d guess that Lauren and perhaps others understood your “Anyone sophisticated enough to be following these discussions in the first place should be capable of grasping this point.” to mean something like “If you, dear interlocutor, were sophisticated enough then you’d grasp my point.”
(Not confident in this though, as this interpretation reads to me like an insult rather than a straw man.)
Huh, okay, thanks. fwiw, I definitely did not intend any such subtext. (For one thing, Publius did not themselves deny the relevant distinction, but merely worried that some other ppl in the general population would struggle to follow it. I was explicitly expressing my confidence in the sophistication of all involved in this discussion.)