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To: TimF who wrote (8729)	12/5/2010 8:52:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

Expanding on the "you need to make a coherent argument" idea - --------- "Facts per se can neither prove nor disprove; everything depends upon the significance that can be given to the facts. So long as a theory is not thought out and worked up in an absolutely inadequate manner, then it is not a matter of supreme difficulty to expound it so as to explain the 'facts' - even if only superficially and in a way that can by no means satisfy truly intelligent criticism. It is not true, as the naive scientific doctrine of the empirico-realistic school has it, that one can save oneself the trouble of thinking if one will only allow the facts to speak. Facts do not speak; they need to be spoken about by a theory." - Ludwig von Mises