I think "you haven't had the relevant experience" is a fairly benign form of the epistemic version. I think there might be more pernicious versions which are similar to the old defences of Marxism and Freudianism; "you're only saying that because class interests/repressed sexual desires are controlling your mind".
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2013-06-05 09:19 am (UTC)