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<p>[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 2549871, member: 39084"]In your zeal to be argumentative and disagreeable (in the literal sense, i.e., disagreeing with everything anybody writes), you entirely miss my point. I can be proven wrong about my opinion (and that's all it is) regarding the tooling on the wings of this coin. If I am, I'll acknowledge that I'm wrong and will have learned something. This has happened to me previously on this Forum, and will likely happen again.</p><p><br /></p><p>But an assertion isn't a proof. Your response above just reinforces my impression that you can't prove your assertion. When one's response is to write that "It's totally obvious to anyone with two working eyes..." or some equivalent verbiage, I'm pretty certain that the the person who wrote that is completely at a loss to factually support his/her opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my experience, hiding behind the "it's just obvious" excuse is the last bastion of someone who is unable to back up his/her assertions with facts or compelling logic. As a mathematician by education, I know that something isn't a fact unless it can be logically proven. I'll await that proof. I retain an open mind about the possibility that I'm wrong; do you?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 2549871, member: 39084"]In your zeal to be argumentative and disagreeable (in the literal sense, i.e., disagreeing with everything anybody writes), you entirely miss my point. I can be proven wrong about my opinion (and that's all it is) regarding the tooling on the wings of this coin. If I am, I'll acknowledge that I'm wrong and will have learned something. This has happened to me previously on this Forum, and will likely happen again. But an assertion isn't a proof. Your response above just reinforces my impression that you can't prove your assertion. When one's response is to write that "It's totally obvious to anyone with two working eyes..." or some equivalent verbiage, I'm pretty certain that the the person who wrote that is completely at a loss to factually support his/her opinion. In my experience, hiding behind the "it's just obvious" excuse is the last bastion of someone who is unable to back up his/her assertions with facts or compelling logic. As a mathematician by education, I know that something isn't a fact unless it can be logically proven. I'll await that proof. I retain an open mind about the possibility that I'm wrong; do you?[/QUOTE]
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