Facts are not opinions.
Assertions have to do with what is.
Assessments have to do with what is possible. Does CNN present both sides when discussing
“two plus two equals four”?
The fact that scientists have not proven an assertion to be
incorrect does not warrant the assessment that it (the assertion) is possible/true.
Florida is currently “in the News” because of the Trayvon
Martin homicide. Several members of the
national media are “searching for the truth.”
I began my search for the
truth about 1957. A couple of
young-looking Chinese Americans were pictured on the front of Parade
Magazine. T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang had
been awarded the Nobel Prize for predicting non-conservation of Parity. See http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1957/.
I learned quickly that chemistry was not my path to the
truth. In the calculation of pH (a
measure of the acidity/alkalinity of a solution), a term of the order of
10**(-14) was ignored in the denominator.
The other term was 10**0 (which is 1).
It was clear that the social sciences were not my path to the truth.
Pure mathematics was my favorite area but it was divorced
from the Real World. My search for the
truth (and funding) led me into Physics.
Although I was searching for the truth,
there was no question about the criterion for truth. It had to be reasonable, self-consistent, and
coherent. To be “reasonable,” it had to
be consistent with all the facts. In
1957, I did not have any questions about what is a fact. I had no conscious awareness of truth needing
any criteria.
About 1970, I bought two paperback books by W. S. Sahakian
and M.L. Sahakian. One described 17 theories/conceptions of
Truth. Authority, revelation, intuition,
correspondence, coherence, and pragmatism are the ones I can recall.
A few years ago, I discovered the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. I learned that Realism is
controversial. [ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/] Neophytes should start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism. [As of April 2, 2012, the Wikipedia entry is
short, informative, and, probably, accurate.
It would be helpful if it addressed whether “common sense” is related to
Thomas Reid.]
If Realism is controversial, does that imply that Arithmetic
IS an Opinion?
I am involved in a domestic dispute in Florida. The facts can be rather accurately described
in numbers. A Motion for Rehearing has
been granted. There is reason to believe
that Justice will prevail. However, the
current Final Judgment of the Court is incredulous to those of us who know the
truth.
I, a male who was removed from the State of Florida by
concerned relatives, have been Profiled as a Male who left the State, abused his
wife, and made Big Bucks at Harris. The
case is backwards. My wife engaged in occasional
Male Perogative, she was never a stay-at-home wife; she always did whatever she
wanted to within the limits imposed upon her by others. She did not get a job appropriate for her. She took the best job she could get and went
back to school nights and weekends to get a second Master’s degree. She completed residency requirements in
minimal time (making it impossible to be at home). In March of 2007, my wife and I had a
difference of opinion about taxes. The
State of Florida diverted me into a Domestic Violence Program. The only support for my wife was from a
Domestic Violence Victims support group.
My wife’s first master’s degree qualified her to be a
Director of Christian Education (DCE) in the United Methodist Church. A skill/talent for recruiting unpaid
volunteers is appropriate for that type of work. I began to see my wife as abusing that
talent/skill as we moved into the era of Knowledge Worker as an
occupation. My former wife got a church
member to set up a budget for her and “process” her data for her tax
input. She had 11 bank accounts, most of
them with Bank of America.
Because my former wife received help from people
knowledgeable with Domestic Violence and Florida Family Law, I “have a history
of Domestic Violence.” There are no
forms identifying the person/persons who helped her prepare her reports. I do not deserve a history of Domestic
Violence. My former wife does not have a
history of Contempt of Court. She
deserves such a history.
In a reasonable world, women would ostracize my former wife
for her abuse of the system they worked to establish. In this world, I have to acknowledge that
whatever the male says, “May be true.”
Proverbs makes various statements about the value of a
reputation. If Arithmetic is an Opinion,
how much should one spend on an Appeal?
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