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We are not given the true facts of what happens in situations/shootings/attacks by the newspapers or other media. Soon the event drops off the radar and we all go on, unaware of just who these people are. Whether you like it or not reports such as these, from reliable resources, can be helpful in some ways. I'll trust the Secret Service over Congress or other politicos who tell me what it is that they think i should know.Yeah, bubblegum happens.
Just keep maintaining vigilance - I don't want big brother using statistics to keep me from protecting myself as these kind of particulars are harbingers of interference with the law abiding because they, our government overseers, just want to help......
Had no intention to be unkind. If I was, I apologize. I find this stuff interesting as it is something that one does not find by ordinary means. Major media = false facts (or just the lack of facts in general)Just to be persnickety: True facts?
As opposed to... false facts?
Something is either true or a fact.
Now, say something unkind about having this pointed out...grammar nazi or something along those lines. I won't be disappointed or in the least miffed if you do.
And yes, at times I too employ poor grammar, but this 'true facts' error is a pet peeve...
Just to be persnickety: True facts?
As opposed to... false facts?
Something is either true or a fact.
There are no false facts. A fact is, by definition, "a thing that is known or proved to be true." Therefore, a fact cannot be false. What the media puts forth may be called false information, among other things, but not "false facts."Well yes/no, false facts are what the media puts forth constantly!! They select particulars or make them up, and put them out as facts. Also they print or publish things prior to the actuality being determined... what they put forth prematurely as facts are not facts. So coining the term "false facts" doesn't bother me... and if there are "false facts" then, would there not be "true facts"?
There are no false facts. A fact is, by definition, "a thing that is known or proved to be true." Therefore, a fact cannot be false. What the media puts forth may be called false information, among other things, but not "false facts."
Or it may be called false facts as it just was. I don't disagree on the literal rules, just the interpretation. Call it what you want, I'll call it what I want. I surely don't care what you call it, why bother to correct what I or others might call it? Is there something that drives one to do that? I might be able to create a few choice names for that tendency also.
Okay, I'll play... You know what really bugs me.... it's when people post sayings that are mis-attributed to famous people to give the saying/writing extra gravitas. Can we please talk about mis-attribution and the misuse of the word "gravitas" which is defined as: dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner, and has "weight" as one of it's synonyms, yet words have no weight, literally, so there's that. It bugs me.
Ah, sweet thread drift! I love it!!!!!
Let's examine the adjective "solid". It means "firm, stable in shape, not liquid or fluid"... shouldn't they have added: "Not gaseous"? However in common understanding, what does solid mean? Well it means something you cannot put your fingers thru the exterior plane for one thing. Solid like concrete, or a tree, lumber, rock, etc. But are these things really "solid"? Nope! Elementary physics will "prove" that all these things are not only in a state of flux, as in glass, which we think of as solid, but the exterior actually responds to gravity and flows just a tiny bit, but also all materials are made up of molecules which are made up of bound atoms, having dimensional space between them, and the atoms themselves made of of a nucleus with one or more orbiting electrons having both the properties of dimensional space but also of movement? How do we know, has anyone ever seen an atom... nope, it's a construct. How then can one properly use the term solid, if it is based on a falsehood and not really true? Yet we do, don't we. We ALL do, and nobody criticizes and corrects. Because it is common usage, even tho technically incorrect, eh?
By the strict definition, there are no facts. Ever. Because we only "think" something is known. Many times later it is discovered and shown to be completely the opposite. Once the world was "known" to be flat... was it? Proven to be true.... nope... too many things were thought to be "proven" true that were indeed not so... nothing then is ever a fact because we live in a world of our own making and we are indeed fallible.
I'm sticking to what I said.... the media puts forth items as facts... they are not.... therefore, they are false, ie "false facts".... it's conceptual not literal. Get it? It's a coined term, just as many technically incorrect terms have become embedded in common usage. Sheesh!!!
Try thinking of "fake butter". It's a real thing, it's not fake, but it's not butter. By your "false information" ruling, it would have to be called "not butter" instead of fake butter. We can all try to claim the more accurate or even the more correct descriptor, but I never liked debate, and am not really good at it so I'll just ask... do you know what the meaning of "is" is???