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Ah okay, apologies. Misunderstood you.

Their interpretation relied on theory. Their collection, even, relied on theory but there is still such a thing as the brute picture taken of a distan...

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I've brought it up before on the thread:

I still think there is an important distinction to make between empirical facts and theories. And since theories can (at least in theory!) be true, eq...

Why don't you try and do a better job than me? This is indeed an important distinction, which I am trying to uphold.

And then the hypothesis that this blown fuse was the reason your car was not starting occured to you and you changed the fuse and then the car started...

Yes, it's an observable and verifiable fact, empirical, the kind I like. The kind that "turns out".

:lol: both are quite good but I prefer this one.

In base 2 numeration, 1+1=10.

Well then, if there is no difference between them, one of these words is redundant and can be disposed of.

What work is the word "fact" doing in this sentence, that would be missing if it wasn't there?

What doesn't seem helpful to me is to shoehorn the word 'fact' in places where another word would work better. In this case: there ought to be a reaso...

What if he had no sexual orientation? What if he was asexual or pansexual or zoophile? In these cases Leonardo was neither gay nor straight. You see? ...

The example of 1+1=2 is just that: an example of a supposed "mathematical fact". I have showed that such facts are assumed or derived from assumed axi...

That's one way to go about it. Another is to consider that Y was true yesterday, even though I didn't know it for a fact, i.e, use the concept of trut...

Oh yeah?

Presumably they will run away from their social duty, as they do now.

Cowards, to be precise. They can't take a shot of RNA for their nation. If there's a war and they are asked to take shots of lead for the nation, what...

Sissies.

2 is what you arrive at when you add 1 and 1. It is the simplest definition of 2 that I know of.

We're going around in circles. The only real fact here -- the way I understand the word -- is about your ignorance of Leonardo's sexual orientation. I...

Thanks for your mercy.

I am trying to help you make your point.

I am talking about the collection of data via human, conscious, careful perception and documentation of a phenomenon. Let me start by agreeing that ma...

And what reasons are those? ---- But you still need someone stating the statement for a statement to exist. Without someone saying "Leonardo was gay",...

Brassens playing it live, after Lino Ventura asked him (on salue l'artiste!): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3vl5l And the Italian translation by ...

A couple of covers, for good measure: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C27QQXWle6c https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BynrYhDLqcc

Or vice versa: truth is better defined as accuracy, at least in science. Don't ask me. Ask yourself: "how did I (Banno) get to this conclusion? How do...

Not if one defines facts as statements or descriptions. What exists exists, but in order to get to a true statement describing some state of affairs a...

And you know that how? It looks like a silly profession of faith to me.

If you live in a tyranny, I feel sorry for you.

My point entirely. The two concepts of accuracy and truth are tightly connected. By doing more observations, usually. Right, and if you say so two tho...

There's no 'problem' per se in voicing opposition to whatever policy but I believe that in times of crisis, 1) one should give some slack to political...

LOL. Flattery will get you everywhere with me. Reading and writing in the language for three decades now, including on The English translation doesn't...

No no no, English is a great language.

Same old same old. It was already the case with AIDS. What happened with the creation of the Global Fund on Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, was that i...

Good resource. I've tried to edit that a bit in the bellow. The Passers-by Antoine Pol I dedicate this poem To all of those women We love for a secret...

Look who's the translator now! Legend has it that Brassens discovered the poem by buying Pol's used poetry book on a flea market, by chance. Pol was t...

So we are making progress?

There was a global effort to tackle the AIDS crisis. Condoms everywhere, lots of communication, ARV drugs made affordable to the poor, the Global Fund...

Interesting. One more author to review.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always lo...

You have examples of unobserved facts?

This has been answered already. Accuracy is -- if you wish -- the quantitative version of truth. Truth is black or white, yes or no, but accuracy goes...

Glad we agree.

Or at least, let natural selection run its course.

My take is that two words never mean the exact same thing, otherwise there wouldn't exist two words. In this case, a fact is not just a true statement...

You have made no argument against my position whatsoever. Maybe you think you did, but as always you only gesticulated in the general direction of Wit...

Of course not...