(January 20, 2010 at 6:49 pm)chatpilot Wrote: FvF said: "can you please define what a fact, in your opinion, actually is?
A fact is that which is true no matter what anyone thinks. The simplest thing I can think of to illustrate this is that if you take a walk off of a ledge of a tall building it is a fact that you are going to fall. You can wish that you don't fall or try to will the opposite effect but like it or not the laws of gravity demand that you go down!!
That statement would need precursors to be true, such as "if you walk off a building on earth and you couldn't fly you are going to fall", but other than that you were correct.
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