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What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

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[-] BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'true fact'.

  • Facts cannot be anything except for true.
  • Anyone who uses the two words 'true fact' together cannot be trusted because they know neither the meaning of the word 'true' or the word 'fact'.
[-] Stan@lemmywinks.com 16 points 1 year ago

Oh how I miss the before times.

[-] koreth@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint: True Facts is a great series of humorous nature documentaries.

[-] WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago

Imagine trying to move by riding a unicycle backwards and throwing up through a giant straw. That is how the nautilus do.

[-] Therefore@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

I'm so sorry but it's either/or & neither/nor. Gotta follow through with the negation.

[-] BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's very negative, however I must concur that it's a fact the correlative conjunctions were incorrectly placed to negate the possibilities.

Whether that fact is true or not is up to you.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago
[-] myslsl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I can't trust you on this because you are using the words 'true fact'.

What about "alternative facts"?

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Facts are just objective statements, which can be either true or false, but whichever they are it is objective and not dependant on the observer.

I mean, it's a semantic argument, and semantics is subjective, but that's probably how the people who say 'true fact' are defining fact.

[-] lorez@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, a statement can be true or false. A fact is always true.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's why I clarified that the definition of any word, including the word fact, is subjective.

[-] lorez@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

No it’s not or we’ll bicker over every word and square could mean triangle. We have agreed upon word definitions. That’s part of a language.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Language is constantly evolving. Deal with it.

[-] lorez@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t mean that word definitions are absolutely not arbitrary nor subjective. They are agreed upon in a civilization at any given time. I don’t have to deal with anything.

[-] milo128@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

this must be one of those false facts

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Natural language is inherently imprecise.

Boom, pedants shook.

[-] gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

That's a true fact!

[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Who called the tautology police?

[-] JasonDJ@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

I see your “True Facts” and raise you Kellyanne Conway.

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