Really struggling with that one.
Surely there must be some way for me to meet such a person, right? Surely?
Well, empirically, no.
"But...surely...."
[Surely] is not an argument. Things that don't happen, don't happen. Not understanding why doesn't make them less unlikely.
...I'll stop believing it now, right? Surely?
"[Surely] is not an argument..."
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I don't but you won't believe me.
Got me there. I will indeed not believe you.
Or: the two halves of the statements are opposites so I have no choice.
Either I can agree I won't believe you.
Or I can agree you're a cooperator.
If I don't believe you, I affirm your cooperatorness.
If I don't affirm your cooperatorness, I believe you.
However, this is not how cooperators speak. This is how abusive Communist or Fascist gotcha-farmers speak. Very Avengers et al.
It is possible you're just laden with bad habits, which you will be breaking sooner or later, but vanishingly unlikely. Indeed if I'm wrong, it will literally be the first time I've ever been wrong about something like this.
Or or: if you really think I wouldn't believe you, then you wouldn't have wasted your time saying anything. Do...do you not believe yourself? That would seem like a greater problem. The only purpose of such an utterance is an attempted betrayal, lol.
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