RE: The X Datatype Proposal

>....
>I fully agree, which is the default for the X model. A
>statement is just a statement. It is not asserted until
>and unless someone makes a statement about that statement
>that indicates that it was asserted, e.g. via the
>proposed property assertedBy (some authority).

But what makes THAT asserted? You seem to be in a vicious regress 
here. If a statement isn't asserted until another statement about it 
is asserted, then that in turn isn't asserted until an even bigger 
statement about IT is asserted, and so on.

Pat

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