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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
With all due respect, someone needs to buy you a book on usage.
The person in question didn't say, "I oppose X in every single instance." He said, "I oppose the existence of X" and suggested, as you've tried to do, that this meant "I oppose X." If you insisted on this sort of illogical and conveniently manufactured usage in a freshman English course in a strict college, you'd find yourself with a rather unsatisfactory grade.
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I have done nothing of the kind. I said that "I oppose X" implies "I oppose the existence of X".
If "I oppose X" have a polemical component it also have the factual component. Which is covered by my implication.