If you can't back up your facts with evidence, they aren't facts they're opinion
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Replying to @GidMK
To my mind, a "fact" is just something that has reached the status of unquestionability, either as a product of consensus, authority or by virtue of coming from a trusted source. So facts don't need evidence to support them. Evidence supports arguments. Arguments = opinions.
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Replying to @frogsandstars
Dunno, I think that there's a fairly big difference between an opinion unsupported by evidence and one that is. In that context, I guess evidence and facts would be synonymous
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Replying to @GidMK
I think the issue is where facts start becoming weapons in arguments instead of being neutral, common ground that every rational person must agree on.
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I can see that. I think my argument was more about what you might call "unsupported arguments" than facts in this case, but facts is a much easier word to use lol
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