Hedging Creates Opinion
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
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Example wrong choices
20252_repub · TORTS · Choice AYes, because only the original speaker can publish a defamatory statement.
Why it's attractive
Absolute word 'only' — the law holds repeaters liable too
Why it's wrong
Absolute word 'only' — the law holds repeaters liable too
20252_repub · TORTS · Choice CYes, because adding 'sounds credible to me' made his statement an expression of opinion.
Why it's attractive
The underlying statement is a verifiable factual accusation; hedging doesn't change that
Why it's wrong
The underlying statement is a verifiable factual accusation; hedging doesn't change that
20252_repub · TORTS · Choice DNo, but only because the original poster later deleted the claim.
Why it's attractive
Publication is complete when communicated to a third party; subsequent events don't undo it
Why it's wrong
Publication is complete when communicated to a third party; subsequent events don't undo it
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