Created page with "bl| What is a claim? }} Answering this has become so common and tedious that I place it here for reference. The scoffer says, "I never made any claims". What is a claim? It may be a propositional statement of truth, but not always. It may be a logical inference. It may be a scoff wherein you claim the thing scoffed is not true. The act of scoffing is such a claim. When someone says they own something because they bought it, that is a propositional statement claiming..."