In a must-be-true question about whether two speakers agree or disagree on a claim, what evidence is required to conclude that they either agree or disagree?

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To decide whether two speakers agree or disagree on a claim, you need evidence from both speakers about that claim. If you only have information from one speaker, you don’t know how the other person stands—they might share the view, oppose it, or be unclear. External signals like the audience’s reaction don’t show what each speaker actually believes, and simply restating the claim in a conclusion doesn’t provide evidence of stance either. When you have evidence from both, you can compare their positions: if both affirm the same claim, they agree; if one affirms while the other denies, they disagree.