<p>I think it said .... They revere Jefferson's words</p>
<p>Silvermoon, you and I are pretty much the same person. I think we've agreed on every single answer. I mean, every answer you've supported I supported also. Pretty neat.</p>
<p>Haha! That is pretty awesome.</p>
<p>Hopefully we'll both get the same good score on this ?</p>
<p>The guy was dismissive - "This is a wildly idealistic message". That statement is hardly sceptical.</p>
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Yup, agreed.</p>
<p>I hated this passage! This isn't the whole thing is it?</p>
<p>The Ace is Back....</p>
<p>The Jeffersonian magic works because we permit it to function at a rarefied region where real-life choices do not have to be made.</p>
<p>I emphasis the part where it says REAL LIFE CHOICES DO NOT HAVE TO BE MADE</p>
<p>^ At that point he's not referring explicitly to the implicit claim (sounds weird). He's referring to the words as a whole.</p>
<p>You could even say that he dismisses the claim into a fantasy world.</p>
<p>So here's where all the "dismissive" folks have been hiding!!!</p>
<p>I think he is totally being dismissive! Some of you say that he is not 100% rejecting these implicit claims.... Yeah, he kind of is... Usually I stray away from extreme answers like "dismissive", but it seems quite appropriate here.</p>
<p>The ultimate explanation why it's not skeptical: He leaves no room for other possibilities...You can pull that from the first line in the paragraph. Skeptical means questioning (According to dictionary.com, "Marked by or given to doubt; questioning"), but his words indicate that he is 100% sure they won't work. He wasn't questioning. He had no doubts (both of which would imply that he wasn't entirely sure)... Nope, he seemed pretty sure to me, hence dismissive.</p>
<p>TheVeganActress, this isn't the whole passage but that's all I could find.</p>
<p>I put skeptical because skeptical doesn't just mean that you're kind of 50-50 in your ideas. It can also mean "disbelieving: denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion" </p>
<p>What he is doing here is questioning how effective Jefferson's ideas would work in today's world not rejecting them.</p>
<p>He is questioning them because he takes an entire paragraph to discuss them.</p>
<p>Exactly. Its skeptical.</p>