09-25-2004, 05:42 PM
Marc
You wrote " ... the fact that, for instance, people awarded with the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR (screwback) who were repressed, received upon rehabilitation a brand new Order ...". You didn't present that as an opinion or conjecture, but as a fact. Your word, not mine.
Then you wrote "I can't seem to find where in my statement I wrote, or even implied, a sense of "always"". You said it was a fact. Now you say it isn't "always" a fact?
From m-w.com:
Fact
5 : a piece of information presented as having objective reality
- in fact : in truth
My real-life experience contradicts your "fact". What you stated as a fact was not always the case and, therefore, not a fact. Your statement was conjecture, not fact.
Also from m-w.com:
Conjecture
2 a : inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved
I often indulge in conjecture when I study this field. I try not to present my conjectures as facts.
Chuck
You wrote " ... the fact that, for instance, people awarded with the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR (screwback) who were repressed, received upon rehabilitation a brand new Order ...". You didn't present that as an opinion or conjecture, but as a fact. Your word, not mine.
Then you wrote "I can't seem to find where in my statement I wrote, or even implied, a sense of "always"". You said it was a fact. Now you say it isn't "always" a fact?
From m-w.com:
Fact
5 : a piece of information presented as having objective reality
- in fact : in truth
My real-life experience contradicts your "fact". What you stated as a fact was not always the case and, therefore, not a fact. Your statement was conjecture, not fact.
Also from m-w.com:
Conjecture
2 a : inference from defective or presumptive evidence b : a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork c : a proposition (as in mathematics) before it has been proved or disproved
I often indulge in conjecture when I study this field. I try not to present my conjectures as facts.
Chuck
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