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I am arguing for conceptual clarity. I think a lot of people here, including you, want the opposite: you guys are after getting your head all muddled ...

He served as the Minister of Education under Sarkozy's presidency. I found him by and large ok, a bit old style.

Philosophers....

I would ask him whether Mary will gain new knowledge when seeing red for the first time, of COURSE! ;-)

Ciao Marco.

Of course I acknowledge that not all what passes for a fact deserves the title. Which is precisely why I am interested in a pragmatic definition, that...

What does that mean? That you define "fact" in a static, unusable manner, as if the determination of what counts as fact and what doesn't was obvious ...

I think the question is: when should a statement be taken as fact, and when should it not? In other words, how does one determine a fact? When cops wo...

I read it in the chess rules.

@"Janus" and @"Banno" are arguing from the point of view of God, while you and I are arguing from a pragmatic human POV. Hence the disagreement. The m...

Indeed.

My definition: a fact is an accurate observation of a given state of affairs, independently verifiable and often verified by many, and thus attaining ...

I'm not a specialist of this. Maybe it can, maybe it can't.

I long used as my moto: "Truth is in the well". It comes from an aphorism of Democritus, "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well". The image...

A term more fitted for an historian, I guess. Historical facts are well established in recent times, eg the 20th century. But when speaking of say ant...

Ok, so what? Are some problems deeper than others, ie more vital, more central, more essential than others? From experience, the real world appears in...

Let's see where that leads me... Why is the depth of an organ, in complex animals like us, correlated to the vital character of the organ? Perhaps bec...

It's a good metaphor. There are always alternative metaphors I suppose. I like the (different but related) expression "it cuts deep". Meaning "what yo...

I made it to chapter XV... Really should pick his Essay again and finish it.

Then don't mention him...

Yes, my point entirely. A fact is always in the past. Your quote was from Collingwood, right?

The first 6 episodes of Lupin are quite entertaining, then it goes South. Another series on Netflix I recommend: The 100. I checked. The music of "Gen...

He thinks he is, yes. I happen to disagree, often. He looks at history with Walt Disney's eyes, searching for vilains and heroes.

This is about the Arsène Lupin character, of recent Netflix fame. Depth estimated at 2 cm, give or take. He's the biggest thief of them all Yes, but h...

I see you've been banned. Must be the fastest banning ever...

I don't think so. He was a brute alright, but not an idiot.

Sorry for the expletive.

Yes it bloody is. You wrote: "Let's say he's innocent". This immediately establishes his innocence in your narrative. This is the only reason why you ...

The only reason you can say this is that, in your story, it IS established that the dude is innocent. You are welcome to go for a personal meaning of ...

Indeed. Apo has a strong bias in favour of Christianity and against Islam. It colors everything he says about history. He's basically a Christian apol...

A measurement is ALWAYS an estimation anyway. There is no way you can know the absolute exact length of your dinner table. But all you need, for any p...

Once more, a fact is more than just something true. It is a statement known to be true, established, that only a madman or a liar would deny. That lev...

But a fact is not just something true, it is something known to be true.

Methodological frameworks combining several methodological frameworks, e.g. quants and qual, in-depth interviews of a few informants and mass surveys....

Exactly. I can see an issue when the framework is chosen and or enforced purposefully to avoid certains facts to come out. Or more simply: certain fra...

These are actual botanical questions, and there are agronomic/ecologic methods to estimate via sampling the biomass per species in a given area or fie...

Who said anything about stopping there?

And good science depends on good observation.

So how do you propose determining what is a fact and what isn't, if you cannot trust what you see?

I don't think so. The common usage is rather: "a statement recognized as true by many folks, and beyond reasonable doubt". And for that to be the case...

Yes, it is probably linked to education and most importantly culture. I find the SEP parochial, but it's probably useful for some as a sort of Junior ...

The SEP is not a resource I use. It's written for students who need simple guidance on issues such as "How do we know that snow is white?". It is not ...

You are just trying to confuse yourself, as usual... And you're quite good at it, might I add. The example "snow is white" speaks of the color of snow...

Simple: The sentence ‘snow is white’ is true iff there is such a thing out there called "snow" by people, and iff that thing, when shed solar light on...

You said there existed alternatives to the correspondence view of truth. Are you now saying the opposite?

This looks like more intellectual masturbation from self-asserted 'analytical' jesters. E.g. from your link: No shit, Sherlock! This is exactly the co...

Care to explain what that would be?

If you had not observed that rain, and nobody else did, would it still be a fact that it rained? A fact is not just supposed to be true, it is known t...

I mean that facts are accurate observations. This definition purposefully excludes theories, which aren't facts because they are always somewhat hypot...

There is simply no alternative.