@SW-User That's the funny thing about facts. They often support more than one angle. Facts can and are misinterpreted all the time.
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Okay, for perspective, there are facts that support the Earth is NOT flat. There are no facts that support it is. Facts don't usually support a "gray area".
@SW-User Not all facts come into our possession known and understood, hence the scientific fields, but philosophically, facts can and do present puzzles at times or 'gray areas'. This is why we have phrases like 'misrepresenting the facts', 'misunderstanding the fact', or my favorite 'spuriousness'.
@questionWeaver I liked this example my professor in research methods gave:
Homicide increases with ice cream sales. There was a correlation. Turns out for that study, there was a third factor, which was heat. The hotter it gets, the more crime that tends to increase. Ice cream sales also increase during the heat. All facts, but say different things depending on how you're looking at them.
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@quietlitany Philosophy isn't really looked upon for facts, but merely trying to answer questions. Granted, those questions can themselves be subjective. Lots of things can be, I'm saying to not disregard those facts though. And I appreciate this discussion!
@SW-User It is actually. Some things can't be measured, such as human emotion and interaction, so it's needed to define governments. Plato's ideas on Truth also discuss this, a realm above understanding. This is what my pic was getting at, a different way of looking at facts, understanding what is subjective and what is objective. If you just want to talk science, my stuff will eventually have nothing to offer.
@SW-User The folks who looked into that social phenomena have come to understand people are out of their houses more, interacting with society, getting angry, impatient with the increased amount of people and temperature, so more opportunities for crime, premeditated or otherwise occur.
