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Just because it's factual doesn't make it true. If you're going for the record, could you supply some good citations? The skeptic in me writes all statements
by grav1tas 16y ago
Just because it's factual doesn't make it true. If you're going for the record, could you supply some good citations? The skeptic in me writes all statements like the one you just wrote as categorically false without some form of external verification.
- jbooth 16y agoYou want a cite for the Reagan and GW Bush presidencies' defining policy initiatives?
- grav1tas 16y agoI'd like some good reading on arguments against supply-side economics and its applications during those two presidencies. Even better if its from somebody who knows a little bit of what's what (you) on the topic. :)
- Natsu 16y ago> "Just because it's factual doesn't make it true." May I ask what definition of "factual" you use? Because every definition I can find says that it has to be something grounded in reality and I looked it up just to be sure.
- grav1tas 16y agoSure you may. I operate on facts being something that can be shown to be true or false i.e. something that is not an opinion. Here's one I found on Google define that's close to what I've always used: "Fact: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts" Thus, a thing that can be proven one way or the other given verifying information. Something that is factual is something that is of facts. Something can be false and still grounded in reality, because reality shows it to be false, hence your definition holds as well...because they're effectively the same thing.
- Natsu 16y agoThat sounds more like what I would use for a definition of the word "falsifiable." I understand the word "factual" to require that the thing so named be true, which is what I understand the definition to mean when it talks about things "grounded in reality."