I personally do not think that anybody (including Prof. Starbird) can define the difference between a "fact" and a "non-fact."Â I took a course at Stanford from one of the most eminent linguistic philosophers of his time (Donald Davidson), and we spent the whole three months debating whether or not the statement (from Socrates) that "Man is a rational animal" is true if and only if man IS a rational animal.
Hardest course (by far) that I took at LSJU, with the smartest people I knew, and we never came to a conclusion.
Hardest course (by far) that I took at LSJU, with the smartest people I knew, and we never came to a conclusion.
All models are wrong; some models are useful......
George Box