**Transcribed (by myself) from Sarah Palin's interview with Charles Gibson. I apologize in advance for any incidental transcription errors.
**"I think you are a cynic, because show me where I have ever said that theres absolute proof that theres nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in that has had any effect or no effect on climate change."
Let's break this down.
Proposition A: You are a cynic if you cannot show me where I have ever said that there is absolute proof that:
2 sub-propositions:
y. Nothing man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect on climate change.
x. Nothing man has ever conducted or engaged in has had no effect on climate change.
Read statement y as equal to "Man's actions have had no effect on climate change."
And, by double negation, read statement x as "Everything man does has an effect on climate change."
Meaning, Sarah Palin has had no position on climate change.
And we end up with the simplified version of proposition A:
If Sarah Palin has had no position on climate change, then George Gibson is a cynic.
Well? To be fair, she's saved by the cunning "absolute proof" caveat. It would take a stupidity more monstrous than that of a mere backwater conservative to claim absolute proof of anything, ever.
"...we're gonna have to implement in Afghanistan a lot of the same successes allotted that surge solution that have been implemented and proven, proven to be successful in Iraq."
That's double proven for emphasis. But not absolutely, I hope.
**"I think you are a cynic, because show me where I have ever said that theres absolute proof that theres nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in that has had any effect or no effect on climate change."
Let's break this down.
Proposition A: You are a cynic if you cannot show me where I have ever said that there is absolute proof that:
2 sub-propositions:
y. Nothing man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect on climate change.
x. Nothing man has ever conducted or engaged in has had no effect on climate change.
Read statement y as equal to "Man's actions have had no effect on climate change."
And, by double negation, read statement x as "Everything man does has an effect on climate change."
Meaning, Sarah Palin has had no position on climate change.
And we end up with the simplified version of proposition A:
If Sarah Palin has had no position on climate change, then George Gibson is a cynic.
Well? To be fair, she's saved by the cunning "absolute proof" caveat. It would take a stupidity more monstrous than that of a mere backwater conservative to claim absolute proof of anything, ever.
"...we're gonna have to implement in Afghanistan a lot of the same successes allotted that surge solution that have been implemented and proven, proven to be successful in Iraq."
That's double proven for emphasis. But not absolutely, I hope.
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