Originally Posted by
DakBroadbent
Sooooo close! Theories change.
Facts never do. The facts just sit there, why we humans conjecture about them, sometimes applying the fact label accurately, sometimes not.
We're saying the same thing, basically, aside from the usage of the word fact vs. theory, or 'accepted as fact.'
Thread drift? What thread drift?
Dak - you never really know a fact then because you never really know what is going to change. We *thought* for 169 million years that some fish had been extinct until it showed up off the coast of South America in the 20th century.
Well I thought we were saying the same thing in the last post because you nailed it, but if you are back to FACTS never change - then no we aren't. In this discussion I pointed out many things that were accepted as FACTS until at some point in history they ended up being disproven because amazing - people got it wrong. Maybe you could give me an example of a FACT that you know to be true/unquestionable to better help me understand you point of view?
So is this Epistemology class or Airline Pilot Central?
Just filling the time until somebody answers the question about the new SecDef.