Yes, No, Maybe?

Yes, No, Maybe?

     David Angel 

Cici - 

You still love me, right?


Angel - 

Affirmation, upon due deliberation and with full cognizance of the semantic, philosophical, and existential implications attendant thereto, must be rendered in the affirmative, such that the proposition under consideration may be regarded as obtaining, subsisting, and standing in a condition of verified and unambiguous veracity.


Cici - 

I know what that means, but will the progressively attenuating cohort of individuals formerly constituting your subscribed constituency—whose numerical presence appears to be diminishing in a steady, perhaps even asymptotic retreat toward statistical inconsequence—retain sufficient interpretive acuity and contextual literacy to apprehend, decode, and meaningfully internalize the substance of your communicative overture?


Angel - 

Upon scrupulous examination, and with careful attention to the manifold contingencies, latent ambiguities and epistemological reservations that might reasonably be advanced, one is compelled to withhold assent and to negate the aforesaid proposition in its entirety, thereby declining to confer upon it the status of truth or actuality.
 

Cici - 

I know your vocabulary, Cyrano.  Did you write a single word of this yourself or did you simply ask one of your AI large language model buds to make you look like you’re some kind of David MacGregor?


Angel - 

In a manner neither committing itself to categorical affirmation nor surrendering to unequivocal negation, but instead suspending definitive judgment within that liminal epistemic interval wherein possibility and improbability coexist in a delicately balanced state of ontological equipoise—subject, of course, to further evidentiary clarification, contextual refinement, and the inexorable revisionary pressures of subsequent reflection—one might provisionally, tentatively, and with all due circumspection, advance a posture of conditional plausibility that gestures toward potential concurrence without foreclosing dissent; that is to say, within the broad and variegated spectrum of conceivable outcomes, it cannot be conclusively excluded that the proposition may, in some qualified or contingent respect, obtain.

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Angel - 

I hope you don't mind I used our real pictures, hon?

Cici - 

Dream on, old man