Re: The end to all language wars and the great unity API to come!

[Andrew Berg]

On 2011.07.06 12:26 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:01:57 -0500, Andrew Berg
> <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > On 2011.07.05 01:14 PM, sal migondis wrote:
> > > How could a belief be wrong?
> > Beliefs aren't subjective.  One's taste in music, for example, is
> > largely subjective and can't be right or wrong, but a belief (which has
> > to do with facts) certainly can be.
>
>       Pardon????
>
>       Most "beliefs" that I've encountered do their best to ignore any
> facts that contradict the belief. "Facts" imply testable evidence,
> hypotheses, eventual theorems...
I didn't say people were objective. A belief is quite similar to a
statement of fact. Whether the statement is true or false or even
objectively reached isn't relevant to the definition.
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