These are the facts
These are the facts
An irrelevant fact may actually have relevance if the fact that it is irrelevant has relevance. It's a fact.
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Re: These are the facts
Fact me.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Re: These are the facts
Example?Pogue wrote:An irrelevant fact may actually have relevance if the fact that it is irrelevant has relevance. It's a fact.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
Re: These are the facts
Why do you think an example would be relevant in this case?
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Hey, I just asked for an example of an irrelevant fact that may actually have relevance if the fact that it is irrelevant has relevance. Can you give me one?Pogue wrote:Why do you think an example would be relevant in this case?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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If I swear at you in a language you don't understand, you won't be bothered, in other words irrelevant. If I do it in English, you might be bothered. Relevant or irrelevant and what is the difference that makes the difference?
And is a fact not something that has a particular location in time and space. Or is just an idea? And what is the difference?
And is a fact not something that has a particular location in time and space. Or is just an idea? And what is the difference?
Re: These are the facts
The wordplay is essentially intended as a mindfuck.
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Swearing at someone in a language that is not understood by the target is one fact. Swearing at someone in a language that is understood by the target is another. Accepting that the lack of bothersomeness equals relevance for the sake of the exercise, the first fact is irrelevant as far as the target is concerned and the second is relevant. Swearing is not a fact. It's a concept, which makes the question you follow up with relevant. FACT!DRSB wrote:If I swear at you in a language you don't understand, you won't be bothered, in other words irrelevant. If I do it in English, you might be bothered. Relevant or irrelevant and what is the difference that makes the difference?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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So, no example forthcoming?Pogue wrote:The wordplay is essentially intended as a mindfuck.
To me a paradox is a mindfuck. Your opening post is just word salad meant to resemble one.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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Pogue is an agent of the lizard lords!
FACT!
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Hermit. Are you available for private tutoring lessons?
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Facts appear to be fucked in the post truth world.
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I'll pay you 3 apples and a candlestick for each session. We can fuse philosophy/physics with psychiatry.
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