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Facts

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:40pm on 08/09/2008
Why are facts cold and hard?
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posted by [identity profile] tisiphone.livejournal.com at 10:54pm on 08/09/2008
They aren't always. The fact of a flower's petal arrangement is as solid as any objective theorem, but it's not cold or hard at all.
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posted by [identity profile] kekhmet.livejournal.com at 11:02pm on 08/09/2008
I demand some warm fluffy facts!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:16am on 09/09/2008
Are there tepid facts? Hot facts? Just how cold are cold facts? Chilly? Freezing? Approaching zero Kelvin?
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posted by [identity profile] esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com at 11:33pm on 08/09/2008
I don't think they are, usually. Most facts are pretty fuzzy around the edges. Maybe not things like multiplication tables, but objective truths are hard to find.
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posted by [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com at 01:06am on 09/09/2008
objective truths are hard to find.

Stand back, I'm going to try mathematics on that!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:14am on 09/09/2008
Steel mesh is hard, but still fuzzy around the edges.
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posted by [identity profile] steer.livejournal.com at 01:06am on 09/09/2008
If they were warm and soft they'd be kittens not facts at all.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:15am on 09/09/2008
I'd always wondered how to tell a kitten from a fact.
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posted by [personal profile] cdave at 09:31am on 09/09/2008
You can stroke a kitten, but not an abstract concept.
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posted by [identity profile] pfy.livejournal.com at 10:21am on 09/09/2008
You need to take them out of the fridge and give them time to reach room temperature, otherwise the bread gets all smushed up when you try to spread them on.
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posted by [identity profile] darktouch.livejournal.com at 02:35pm on 09/09/2008
I always figured it was so that they'd hurt more when they smacked you up side the back of the head.
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