What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

  • Ben
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    1 year ago

    ‘true fact’.

    • Facts cannot be anything except for true.
    • Anyone who uses the two words ‘true fact’ together cannot be trusted because they know neither the meaning of the word ‘true’ or the word ‘fact’.
      • @WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        61 year ago

        Imagine trying to move by riding a unicycle backwards and throwing up through a giant straw. That is how the nautilus do.

      • Ben
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        21 year ago

        That’s very negative, however I must concur that it’s a fact the correlative conjunctions were incorrectly placed to negate the possibilities.

        Whether that fact is true or not is up to you.

    • @JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Facts are just objective statements, which can be either true or false, but whichever they are it is objective and not dependant on the observer.

      I mean, it’s a semantic argument, and semantics is subjective, but that’s probably how the people who say ‘true fact’ are defining fact.

      • lorez
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        1 year ago

        No, a statement can be true or false. A fact is always true.

          • lorez
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            -11 year ago

            No it’s not or we’ll bicker over every word and square could mean triangle. We have agreed upon word definitions. That’s part of a language.

              • lorez
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                01 year ago

                That doesn’t mean that word definitions are absolutely not arbitrary nor subjective. They are agreed upon in a civilization at any given time. I don’t have to deal with anything.

    • @CanadaPlus
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      11 year ago

      Natural language is inherently imprecise.

      Boom, pedants shook.