RE: Telling fact from fiction
July 22, 2016 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2016 at 10:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 22, 2016 at 6:56 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(July 21, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yeah, nature documentaries that imagine what the alligator is thinking, and then voice it in american english. Fiction. Journalists who guess, as best they can, the thoughts of others. Fiction. I don't know if anyone ever told you this...but we often use fiction to explore or convey fact.
Yeah... I hate those, and normally turn the channel.... I was talking about ones, that just describe what they are doing.....
If it's just describing what's going on in front of the camera, what's in front of the camera being an alligator, it's probably 1st person limited, objective narration. Commentary. Without fact checking the contents of the narrative, this one is fairly mundane. It, at least..... -can be- completely factual, and only has a single flow of information to concern itself with.
If I was given two narratives..and told that one was fictional and one was factual. One being 1st person limited objective, and the other 3rd person omni...it'd be a no brainer as to which was which. Hopefully, this exploration of pov has been useful for you, and you get the gist of both how and why it can help separate fact from fiction, or even fact from fiction -about- fact.
From here, still avoiding any fact finding expeditions regarding the contents, I'd check for narrative devices. This one's a broader subject, but the means to infer fact or fiction is actually much simpler. The greater the concentration of narrative devices present....the more likely the author is telling a story, which, at best..would be a heavily stylized -version- of fact..if it were fact. This is due to the fact that life, real life, doesn't contain alot of narrative device. They're all ways to move a story along, to steer a narrative, to be economical with words, to engage a reader and make the payout, the catharsis at the end, bigger.
As to the above...you both could and -do- see evolution and the effects of evolution, even in your daily life. Probably more an issue of you not realizing it. I assume that flowers grow in your vicinity...and that you eat vegetables? That you've seen a child and been a child...that you're aware of their parents and the differences, and similarities... between them and the child, your parents and yourself? That you've been in a crowd? I'm guessing that you think it's "more" than this, but it's not, and that's the brilliance of it. Change, variation over time... is easily the singlemost ubiquitous and and imminently observable trait of life. It requires no special knowledge, no complicated equipment.
It probably would, in your situation...be more reasonable to be skeptical of sweden.....and isn't that saying something....?
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