Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-38307063-20200429111722/@comment-17964257-20200429142501

I don't think you understand what "factual" or "citation" means.

> but the resemblance between the two swords is so obvious that you don't need a direct statement to see it

Except you are immediately throwing away the possibility of "coincidence". "May in fact be" is not a factual statement, we do not care what may or not be. We care about what is and isn't.