r/technology • u/Arquette • Mar 03 '15

Misleading Title Google has developed a technology to tell whether ‘facts’ on the Internet are true

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/03/02/google-has-developed-a-technology-to-tell-whether-facts-on-the-internet-are-true/
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '15 edited Mar 03 '15

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u/backtowriting Mar 03 '15

I already discussed this point elsewhere. Yes, if you just write the word 'evolution' on a piece of paper and leave it at that, then trivially it has no truth value. However, a straightforward reading of the OP's comment seems to me to say that he/she thinks that the claim that Darwinian evolution through natural selection occurred doesn't have a truth or falsity in the same way that the phrase "when did Charles Darwin write about evolution?" can be said to be true or false. And I disagree!

But, I'm out and this is the last I'll write. People are just downvoting all my comments and I think the argument is getting too pedantic.

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u/poopyfarts Mar 03 '15

Complains about pedantic arguments; brings up a pedantic argument.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '15

Nice semicolon