Claim d7ffa4dc
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“Belgium was pretty much a non-country.”
Interpreted asmetaphor
“Belgium was portrayed as lacking the qualities or status of a real country.”
The claim evaluates Belgium as lacking the qualities or status associated with being a “real” country. That standard is value-laden rather than a determinate factual or causal assertion, so it is stored as an evaluative judgement and not assessed further.
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Except towards [Herman Van Rompuy,] the president of the European Council? You told him to his face he had ‘the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk’.3On February 24, 2010, he told Herman Van Rompuy, the first full-time president of the European Council: ‘We were told that, when we had a president, we’d see a giant global political figure. … I’m afraid what we got was you. … I don’t want to be rude, but … you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. … You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states. Perhaps that’s because you come from Belgium, which of course is pretty much a non-country.’
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