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To: KLP who wrote (52419)	10/16/2002 3:56:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Edit: I take this statement to mean: We agree on the facts, but have different interpretations of those facts.... Aren't "facts" facts? Surely you see that our disagreements are not factual but rather interpretive Karen, The thread had a rather long and, at least to me, informative discussion of facts and interpretations early on. If you were interested you could check back. Well, then, the more I put a little piece of my mind to it, I realize checking back is not a viable option. No good keywords, search function not all that robust, etc. Tek started a discussion about this in which he offered the basic distinction of facts and interpretations. We might, for instance, all agree on the number of poor families in the US but we might disagree vigorously over the meaning of that and, thus, the political implications of that observation. We, basically, left the conversation at that level. There is, however, another discussion, definitely not relevant to this thread, as to just what "facts" are. That discussion has, on the one end, something like the Rashomon effect, the Japanese movie, in which there are several witnesses to a "rape" but none recount the same event such that it throws into question just what a "fact" is, and on the other end, positions that argue that these little critters termed "facts" are substantial, verifiable, nuggets of truth.