[ExI] Fan of Sci-Fi? Psychologists Have You in Their Sights

[William Flynn Wallace]

You're certainly entitled to your opinions on these artists and anything
else. But declaring that your opinions are actually facts is arrogant and
wrong.

-Dave

Oh Yeah!  You wanna fight?  Show me my declaration. Show me where anyone's
opinion on anything is called a fact.  Opinions may be based on facts, but
they are not facts. (Feynman - the problem is with the Orings.  Is that a
fact?  Based on fact, but it is an opinion.)   A fact is the outcome of
controlled observation.   Furthermore, a fact can be overturned and shown
to be wrong.  An opinion cannot.

Aside from the very basics "This is an oil painting." everything anybody
has ever said about any section of the arts consists of opinions.  The only
things I would call 'true' are scientific facts.  Anyone who says anything
different from that is indeed arrogant and wrong.

I am an empiricist.  You?

bill w

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 2:14 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 2:32 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> James Joyce's ... premodern, modern, post-modern (who can keep up?)
>> poetry ... Classical music ...
>>
>> Truly accurate last words that should have been said by all of the
>> above:  "I did it.  I got away with it!  I am famous and they don't know
>> why!"
>>
>> So if you think you understand any of the above, the joke's on you.
>>
>
> You're certainly entitled to your opinions on these artists and anything
> else. But declaring that your opinions are actually facts is arrogant and
> wrong.
>
> -Dave
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