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Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by superb-owl on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:32AM (#32899716)
I disagree. We can judge the falsifiability of statements without knowing whether or not they're false.

E.g. "red is a better color than blue" is obviously a subjective opinion, where as "ʻOumuamua is made of frozen nitrogen" is obviously a falsifiable statement.

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Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by AbrahamParangi on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:41PM (#32900666)
Right, there are specific instances of opinions which cannot be verifiable facts, but the verifiability of a fact is not, in general, itself verifiable!
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Re:Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT by superb-owl on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:00PM (#32905821)
True! I like this formulation of your statement
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