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Politics : Evolution
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To: average joe who wrote (8391)7/13/2010 11:48:11 AM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
<Both of these statements represent what we call facts, and facts are those things concerning which there is neither controversy nor dispute. Tallahassee is the capital of Florida because everyone accepts it as the capital; and 6x6 makes 36 because no one thinks of arguing about it. Both truths are truths by convention, which is a fancy way of saying that they are truths that we are all prepared to accept without argument.
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Better tell Pope Greg that... he thinks 2+2 is something other.... some "universal" truth. Of course it's the only way to keep his evil "relativism" boogy man from breaking out of his closet.

DAK
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