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At 5/6/13 09:56 PM, anyapple wrote:

I don't get the question. Could you explain it?

Well any fact you read is potentially not true.
If you read some book on ghosts, it'll probably all be bullshit, even the parts that are supposed to be "facts".

And really, a theory is just an incomplete fact. The theory of evolution is nothing but a giant collection of facts and a few guesses / educated guesses.

There are accepted facts / popular facts that have almost no support for them ( like the historicity of Jesus ) and so, really, how is that different than a hypothesis?

For instance, if I say "Balloons float because of invisible Sasquatch" then it becomes a fact once it's been demonstrated sufficiently, but until then it's only a guess / hypothesis / theory etc.

So yah ultimately, what difference is there between a fact, a theory and a hypothesis? They're all facts, they only vary in the degree to which we are certain about them being true.

OMG I THOUGHT ABOUT ALL OF THIS THANKS TO READING THE NOVELIZATION OF TOP GUN! lol

I think I've learned as much from fiction as non-fiction. I could go on about the different things you can learn from books(though they are not exclusive to books) but instead I'll just not care. I read for pleasure.

At 5/6/13 10:48 PM, Sensationalism wrote: I think I've learned as much from fiction as non-fiction. I could go on about the different things you can learn from books(though they are not exclusive to books) but instead I'll just not care. I read for pleasure.

Admit it, you want to kill all the trees. Tree-hater!!!

At 5/6/13 07:06 PM, poxpower wrote: How can you learn a thing that isn't a fact?
lol

You can learn what someone's opinion is. Yeah, it wouldn't be very useful, but it's still something you could learn. Better yet, what most people think of something.

At 5/5/13 03:43 PM, Zack-DeAngelis wrote:

At 5/5/13 03:42 PM, T3XT wrote: I hate when people think they're superior for not reading books.

wat

he is describing the people this thread is catered for

I think there is a great misunderstanding here between knowledge and intelligence. One being the learning of facts and the other the ability to use information in different ways.

You can learn every fact in the world but it would only help you answer certain questions. That is why we have fables, proverbs and stories to help us understand the rest of the world. We learn from all of our interactions with the world, be it games, reading, talking or whatever.