Re:A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty
by danharaj on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:08AM
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The facts that you choose to include in a book and which to not include is implicitly an argument. I doubt the book goes over how the sky is blue, grass is green, and water is wet. What facts it considers relevant to mention is the entire argument itself.
That's interesting, because the book does not contain any arguments.
It contains facts. Hard numbers gathered over generations.
It's not a discussion or an argument, it's simply facts about the state of the world.