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Kevin Goff has been (unfairly?) Banned - Week Two
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14/01/2009 11:13:20
 
 
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Politics
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>>>>>>>>Facts != Truth
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hmm. So something can be a fact but not true?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>A set of facts, each individually true, may not sum up to the "truth".
>>>>>
>>>>>Can you give an example ?
>>>>
>>>>Fact: Israel has been bombing the Gaza
>>>>Fact: Those bombs have killed children
>>>>
>>>>What's the truth: Israel is a country of monsters who bomb the Gaza in order to kill children?
>>>>
>>>>Unless you have all the facts (and whoever does?), the facts you have don't necessarily add up to 'truth'.
>>>
>>>I fail to understand your argument (unless,of course, you are claiming that the third statement is the 'truth')
>>
>>The third statement is a 'truth' that might be gleaned from the facts presented. It illustrates the statement that you led you to want an example. If that's not what you want, then I don't understand what issue you're having with his statement.
>
>By definition a 'truth' must be true.
>The third statement can be no more than, at best, a supposition based on the two preceding facts.
>Stating that 'Facts != Truth' is the same as 'Truth != Facts' which is not possible - either it is not the truth or the facts are not facts.

I take it then that you either missed or ignored the quotation marks he place around the word 'truth'.
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