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    Supports→In a disputation with a false positum, almost any proposition may have to be granted at later steps.

    A proposition irrelevant to the positum alone must be granted if it is taken to be true on other grounds.

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    According to Burley’s approach, proposition 1 has to be evaluated as irrelevant, because it does not follow from the positum alone, and because of the first disjunct it is taken to be true even if the respondent is not a bishop (apologies to any reader actually in Rome). It must therefore be granted. However, this answer makes the other disjunct relevant, because the first disjunct happens to be the negation of the positum. Thus, Proposition 2 must be granted. Indeed, by suitable selection of pr

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