Re:The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it...
by wool_gather on Saturday August 25, 2018 @10:28AM
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This is a linguistic ploy, not an argument.
> 1942: βThe Germans are our enemies.β That was a fact.
And it will not cease being a fact that, in 1942, Germany and whoever were enemies. Nor that they became friends later. It's possible that they will be enemies again in the future. That wouldn't render the statement about 1992 non-factual.
I'm not even going to bother with the mayonnaise, since that's just founded on a willful misinterpretation of the original comment.
> 1942: βThe Germans are our enemies.β That was a fact.
And it will not cease being a fact that, in 1942, Germany and whoever were enemies. Nor that they became friends later. It's possible that they will be enemies again in the future. That wouldn't render the statement about 1992 non-factual.
I'm not even going to bother with the mayonnaise, since that's just founded on a willful misinterpretation of the original comment.