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Yes. And?

Facts are not usually the sort of thing that is decided. (I think i already said that).

No. Facts are there regardless of what you believe.

You don't often get to decide what is true. Rather you get to decide what you believe.

I think answered your problem. Facts are not the sort of thing that can be true or false; truth and false are predications of statements, not facts. S...

And that's it. There are no profound metaphysical questions here. Only questions about how we speak and write.

I'll pay attention to you, because you drew attention to the salient feature of alternative facts. As you pointed out, Conway meant something most of ...

Good question. In English we have no Academy to decide such things. So in a way Humpty was right. But it behoves us to at least be consistent in our u...

Note that this is a question about English grammar. It is asking the correct use of the word 'fact'.

Trump's inauguration cake. Why?

That's the thing - when there is no distinction between true and false statements, anything goes - which means that equity looses; the powerful have t...

So in a post-truth world we have "alternate facts" Laugh or cry? :-}

Good for you. Perhaps I will be caring for a child next time you go to the pub.

Tiff, The US is a great nation. But it has made a dreadful mistake in opting for Trump. Australia has made very bad mistakes, too.

So you are afraid of women, too.

I joined in the local protest. Here it was a celebration of feminism, with an emphasis on human rights, bodily integrity and women as leaders, and inc...

1+1 makes 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNQWk9abyi4

She was a 'ranga.

And you know this - how?

Australia's first female prime minister was an atheist and living in sin. Hardly anyone noticed. It certainly was not a disadvantage in the election. ...

Nor I. That Agustino sees Trump as a bastion of christian virtue tells us much about Agustino.

(Y) X-)

Hm. I present you with the largest metastudy of the effects of education and you dismiss it offhand and refuse to provide other evidence. What ought o...

So present evidence to the contrary.

My spelling checker still refers to you as "Hangover".

And lying is a christian virtue? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-22/just-how-big-was-donald-trumps-inauguration-crowd/8201382?WT.tsrc=Facebook_Orga...

But it so fits Agustino.

http://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/ Homework effect 0.29 Choose what you mean by lecturing and ch...

twenty-five-ish.

Indeed, neither lecturing nor homework are beneficial. Poor teaching methods inflicted on students by the expectations of those who are not teachers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGYFRzf2Xww

As if one might test, assign homework and lecture to a group who did not first know how to behave.

Your post drips with fear. I feel sorry for you.

Providing guidance as to how one ought behave socially is pivotal to teaching; One might pretend that teachers are not moral instructors, but it would...

What grates is the proclivity of those outside education to set themselves up as arbiters. No other profession has so much external interference. Woul...

Well, that was fun. Perhaps we have reached an impasse such that we differ on basic values. Dominating the world is no more than a fetish. Nor are you...

So Sanders is a hopeless idealist because he thinks the US should have a common wealth of universal health coverage, education and support for the poo...

which is...? I gather it is not trickle down economics?

So Sanders has an ideology, but is not machiavellian enough to win, while Trump is machiavellian enough to win, but being a pragmatist has no ideology...

And isn't that thinking part of the problem?

So you are saying that Sanders is not machiavellian enough to replace the machiavellian establishment, but Trump is machiavellian enough to replace th...

And what does it do next?

So you think that pragmatism avoids ideology? Sure about that?

Pictures, or it didn't happen.

Thank you.

I have not read your conversation with Agustino - it does not look particularly appetising. But I guess so long as you are having fun and don't hurt y...

OK, so what you think realpolitik is, diverges from what I think it is. So tell me what realpolitik is. It might help me understand how you can accuse...