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fanzhang on Nov 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Accord has gone live Call now to someone who disag...

More neutrally, maybe you mean "two people who disagree about the facts won't have a meaningful conversation".

To that extent I wholeheartedly agree. If you can't even agree on the base data, how can you build a conclusion?

gnode on Nov 25, 2016 [–]

But what is a fact, other than a conclusion that appears obvious? The logic by which people have decided what they regard as factual data, upon which they base their arguments, can itself be debated.

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