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Eyewitness testimony is a personal experience that's been well proven to be poorly correlated with others' personal experience of the same event. You may be re
by hashkb 6y ago
Eyewitness testimony is a personal experience that's been well proven to be poorly correlated with others' personal experience of the same event. You may be redefining "fact".
- 6AA4FD 6y agoI agree that person experiences are not exactly reliable, but I think it's also good to remember that they can have the appearance of facticity and accuracy, as indicated by the sentiment of the person you were replying to.
- space_rock 6y agoPlease tell me where you get your input if not from personal experience? Logical fallacy to say because interpretation of sensory inputs is not perfect therefore we are bind and know nothing about the world
- hashkb 6y agoYou're attacking a straw man. My point is that there's a method by which we start from observations and, through a process that (critically) involves other people, we reach an objective understanding of a subject. The observations aren't facts, but the conclusions can be.
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- auggierose 6y agoI am not redefining fact, but you are trying to reinterpret a personal experience as something it isn't. A personal experience is not an objective accurate fact about the world. There is no such thing. It can only ever be a bias. Just as an example can usually not be the proof of a theorem, just an indication that the theorem might be true.
- hashkb 6y agoThere are facts. Like: "My laptop will not run indefinitely without power". Right?
- auggierose 6y agoTell that "fact" to a person not speaking English. Or to somebody who has never seen a laptop. Or to somebody, who doesn't know what "power" is. If you interpret "indefinitely" as in "within my lifetime", will that sentence still be true in the future? Once we've stripped the contextual stuff from your sentence, your sentence is a fact in a similar way to "1 = 1" being a fact. These kinds of facts are not that terribly interesting, because they are context-free, and context is usually the entire point of a fact. Oh, and I would argue that your laptop does not run indefinitely without power is a very personal experience, at least for me.