“You don’t challenge any of my conclusions you only suggest I have no basis for drawing them..” Correct, which is what I said. It’s all conjecture. Thank you for acknowledging my point.
Whatever you may have learned during your sophomore year, it is quite possible to know things. One of the things we can know, from direct experience of another’s words, is the acuity of their mind and the clarity of their thought. If you have any argument to make about how Fred and W are similar, make it. If you don’t go do something useful like brushing up on your epistemology. Constantly repeating that it is impossible to know either very public man’s mind is just juvenile nonsense.
If you believed what you are saying, you could not consistently be maintaining that there is any similarity between Fred and W. If the assertion that they are different is mere conjecture so is any assertion that they are similar.
In fact, of course, neither assertion is grounded in conjecture. They are both grounded in observation. It’s just that one is right and the other is embarrassingly wrong.