I think you are mistaken about the process that generated my previous comment; I would have preferred a response that engaged more with what I wrote.
In particular, it looks to me like you think the core questions are “is the hypothesis I quote correct? Is it backed up by the four examples?”, and the parent comment looks to me like you wrote it thinking I thought the hypothesis you quote is correct and backed up by the examples. I think my grandparent comment makes clear that I think the hypothesis you quote is not correct and is not backed up by the four examples.
Why does the comment not just say “Duncan is straightforwardly right”? Well, I think we disagree about what the core questions are. If you are interested in engaging with that disagreement, so am I; I don’t think it looks like your previous comment.
(I intended to convey with “by the way” that I did not think I had (yet) responded to the full substance of your comment/that I was doing something of an aside.)
I think you are mistaken about the process that generated my previous comment; I would have preferred a response that engaged more with what I wrote.
In particular, it looks to me like you think the core questions are “is the hypothesis I quote correct? Is it backed up by the four examples?”, and the parent comment looks to me like you wrote it thinking I thought the hypothesis you quote is correct and backed up by the examples. I think my grandparent comment makes clear that I think the hypothesis you quote is not correct and is not backed up by the four examples.
Why does the comment not just say “Duncan is straightforwardly right”? Well, I think we disagree about what the core questions are. If you are interested in engaging with that disagreement, so am I; I don’t think it looks like your previous comment.
(I intended to convey with “by the way” that I did not think I had (yet) responded to the full substance of your comment/that I was doing something of an aside.)