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Thread #71282   Message #1219397
Posted By: DMcG
04-Jul-04 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are facts shite?
Subject: RE: BS: Are facts shite?
You're welcome, DougR :->

It was, of course, pure jest as I am sure you all realise. But were anyone to insist on being serious about it, there is some sort of point - the one single observed phenomenon can have lots of different interpretations depending on your point of view. Which interpretation you claim as the 'factual' one is at least as much to do with how you then use it than about its inherent features - i.e. its as much about 'you' as about 'it'.


(And, while we are thinking about 'the sun setting every day', what about from within the Artic circle? Anyone care to defend or counter the argument that it sets every day there?)