Beliefs can only be epistemically legitimate, actions can only be morally legitimate. To “bring something up” is an action, not a belief. My point is that this action wasn’t legitimate, at least not in this heavily abridged form.
If you mean by “statement” an action (a physical utterance) then I disagree. If you mean an abstract object, a proposition, for which someone could have more or less evidence, or reason to believe, then I agree.
Beliefs can only be epistemically legitimate, actions can only be morally legitimate. To “bring something up” is an action, not a belief. My point is that this action wasn’t legitimate, at least not in this heavily abridged form.
Statements can be epistemically legit or not. Statements have content, they aren’t just levers for influencing the world.
If you mean by “statement” an action (a physical utterance) then I disagree. If you mean an abstract object, a proposition, for which someone could have more or less evidence, or reason to believe, then I agree.