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To: zimdog
No. It states that Khaldun's scholarship was carried out contemporaneously with a Christian Reconquista in Iberia, which is what any normal reader of the sentence would infer.

Except that the Reconquista lasted from 718 to 1492 - a characteristic that is inherently implicit in the term. When you use the term Reconquista without any qualifiers to designate a specific event within the Reconquista, it must be assumed that you are referring to the Reconquista in its whole. If you meant only Granada then you should have said Granada. Once again you've been undone by your imprecise usage of terminology.

I cannot reasonably debate with such a relativist who bends not just the facts but the language itself to fit his needs. Good day.

If that is the case one is left to wonder how you approach the mirror every morning. Then again, it is a common characteristic of liars to engage in projection. They tend to go hand in hand. I've already established numerous instances of you lying, so your indulgence with its psychological fellow travellers was to be expected.

176 posted on 01/09/2007 1:51:52 PM PST by lqclamar
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To: lqclamar
Except that the Reconquista lasted from 718 to 1492 - a characteristic that is inherently implicit in the term.

Which would mean something if we could reasonably expect ibn Khaldun to have lived 774 years. Or, by your logic, your writing is not contemporaneous with the Space Age, since you likely were not writing at the time of Sputnik.

've already established numerous instances of you lying, so your indulgence with its psychological fellow travellers was to be expected.

Only when you change the meaning of "lying", Clinton.

179 posted on 01/09/2007 2:07:51 PM PST by zimdog
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