Posted by Lou Pilder on September 4, 2006, at 20:36:18 [reposted on September 16, 2006, at 9:25:22 | original URL]
In reply to My point exactly, posted by finelinebob on September 4, 2006, at 19:22:50
Friends,
It is written here,[...no one ..asked me what the sum of 2 2 is, so I am..making a statement, not answering a question..].
A false statement is one that is made that is knowingly false. Does this mean that ;
A. the person making the statement must know that it is false?
B. The statement is known to be false?
Well, let us look at a university setting and a professor is teaching that the earth is flat.
This has been determined to be false and those in the community know that it is false. So if a professor teaches that the earth is flat {as fact}, then he/she is teaching what is {knowingly false}. The professor may believe it.
Now that is one example. But what if the professor was teaching Lamarkian evolution {as fact}?
Or let's say that the professor was teaching that the holocaust did not happen {as fact}?
So when a statement that is false is uncivil could be if the statement is being presented {as fact}. This is not the same as presenting the statement as an inquiery for exploration, for then there is no representaion as being a fact.
In this discussion, is it about whether or not the accusation toward the Jews is presented as fact or not?
Lou PIlder
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