Poor, Edmund W wrote:

Eclecticology opined:

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Larry's definition of fact seems way off base. If we strictly follow his definition of fact then it is fact to say that Saddam Hussein is a popular president.

You seem to be attempeting an argument ad absurdum, but I don't see how you get "Saddam Hussein is a popular president" from anything Larry said.

I say this without prejudice to whatever point you were trying to make. By the way, what point *were* you trying to make?

Larry stated "By "fact," on the one hand, we mean "a piece of information about which there is no serious dispute." Saddam Hussein won 100% of the vote in a recent Iraqi election. At that rate there is no serious dispute. Therfore it is a fact that Saddam Hussein is a popular president. :-P

Ec