[Wikipedia-l] Treason (Was: stupid anglicization)

[Ray Saintonge]

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>Eclecticology opined:
>
>>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