And My Axon
quiet

When someone’s assertions are challenged by a critic,

and the critic sees the counterarguments as having sufficiently exposed the original assertions as erroneous,

and the people the critic originally tried to convince agree with the critic,

and the critic leaves the discussion,

why does the original asserter, merely reasserting their original assertions, then claim to have won when the critics go silent?

I suppose this has to do with the audience?