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by yyt88 1020 days ago
Apologies, I'm new here.

How would you express your angle regarding the contested point?

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You're making a logical connection betweeen x depending on y and x being (bigger/more important/more significant) than y.

That implies that nothing can be more important than all of the things that were neccesary for it to come to pass. And there are a huge number of neccesary preconditions for most things. Your definition would result in a very counterintuitive definition of importance.

I understood your criticism of my post. What I was asking for as how you would have expressed the criticism of the post I was criticising, since you mentioned that you also don't agreee with it, just like me.
I just would have made my wording less harsh and less sounding like a personal attack.