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The dissent is actually pretty bizarre, for reasons I'll hopefully get to shortly. In fact the dissenter believes his argument based on the logic textbooks is all that's necessary to find in favor of Rumsfeld et al
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Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Not only is it a sophomoric attempt to hold the Law School's reasoning to logico-mathematical axiomatic standards, but it then suddenly does a 180 and argues that the dissenter's reasoning can be based, like an internet degree, on life experience. I.e.,
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The subjective idiosyncratic impressions of some law students, some professors, or some anti-war protesters are not the test. What we know as men and women we cannot forget as judges.
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Wow. IOW, "The subjective idiosyncratic impressions of some law students, some professors, or some anti-war protesters are not the test. The subjective idiosyncratic impressions of me are the test."