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RE: Dealing With Intellectual Assault
This (stating opinion as fact) is actually one of my primary contentions.
Please do not conflate Qualia with Quanta.
Qualia = qualitative, experiential, personal, private, value judgement, opinion
Quanta = quantitative, verifiable, scientific, tautological, real-true-fact
For example,
It's quite staggering how much this seems to happen. Especially generalizations that are stated as fact. My mind was utterly blown when that man said this to me in a very condescending manner.
Looking back on it now, I allowed myself to have an emotional response to it, a negative emotional response, in where I felt his generalization was a blatant attack, due to an opinion he had conjured up in his mind, regarding an entire generation of people. The real irony to me was he was stating his opinion about a generation not knowing the difference between opinions and facts. I think my face must have contorted in a way that I'll probably never be able to emulate again.
Why do I feel he was stating an opinion?
Because a generalization such as this cannot be a fact unless you have the data on every single person in an age group, of which he obviously does not. (That is my opinion, but I guess it sounds like I'm stating a fact lol, it seems logical enough anyway.)
You did a very nice job with this example video. It was a great reminder of why I do not watch mainstream politics. Debates do not seem very respectful to me with the mainstream media, and I trust very little of it.
Thank you for taking the time to read and share your perspective @logiczombie.
Good point!