Claim About Nothing Factual Found
“Uhm, no. I mean what I wrote earlier.”
Summary
The expression “Uhm, no. I mean what I wrote earlier.” is a conversational clarification rather than a verifiable statement of fact, so it cannot be assessed as true or false.
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- 1 2022 TENNESSEE JUDICIAL ACADEMY The Hearsay Rule and Exceptions
position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.
- Rule 801. Definitions That Apply to This Article; Exclusions from Hearsay | Federal Rules of Evidence | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
(C) identifies a person as someone the declarant perceived earlier. (2) An Opposing Party’s Statement. The statement is offered against an opposing party and: (A) was made by the party in an individual or representative capacity; (B) is one the party manifested that it adopted or believed to be true...
- Assertion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Spring 2014 Edition)
In this sense, an assertion (a statement) is false if one of the state of affairs that the speaker meant to exclude with the assertion obtains. If no such state of affairs obtains, the statement is true.
- Argument: Claims, Reasons, Evidence | Department of Communication
Critical thinking means being able to make good arguments. Arguments are claims backed by reasons that are supported by evidence. Argumentation is a social process of two or more people making arguments, responding to one another--not simply restating the same claims and reasons--and modifying ...
- Chapter 2: Supporting Everything You Say with Evidence – Professional Speaking for the Modern Workplace
All of your speeches in this class require some sort of citation, evidence, or backing. “Evidence” is a short quotation used in a speech as a warrant to support a speaker’s claim.
- Speech Evidence | Writing and Speaking Center | University of Nevada, Reno
Both statements support the claim that peanut butter on both sides of the bread is the better option; however, each will be received and processed differently by the audience. As you read a source, you will notice many pieces of evidence are contained in one paragraph. As the speaker, you need ...
- Fallacies | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Speaker: The German atrocities ... them. Respondent: I don’t understand how you can be so insensitive as to condone those German atrocities. Fallacy of Argumentum ......
- 10.3 Persuasive Reasoning and Fallacies – Communication in the Real World
Instead of arguing that “x caused y,” it is more accurate for a speaker to say “x influenced y.” Causal thinking is often used when looking to blame something or someone, as can be seen in the following example: It’s the president’s fault that the economy hasn’t recovered more. While such a statement may garner a speaker some political capital, it is not based on solid reasoning.
- Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
Fortunately, debate does not restrict itself to purely logical grounds of argumentation. For example, suppose your opponent has stated axiomatically that "whatever is natural is good." Inasmuch as this statement is an axiom rather than the conclusion of a logical proof, there can be no purely logical argument against it.