Facts have a literal bias.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 21, 2016
We think of facts as found not made, but facts are made to be found and, once found, made to be foundational.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 21, 2016
Facts are suborned things.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 21, 2016
Fetishes are the figures we take to yield false facts.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 22, 2016
Facts are the figures we have fetishized to yield truths.
(The last handful of tweets have been my pre-game warm-up to prepare for my return to the Rhetoric Department this week for fall teaching.)
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) August 22, 2016
> Facts have a literal bias.
ReplyDeleteHm. Do I detect a divergence of opinion here? Yes, I think it's a fact!
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/08/26/university-of-chicago-dean-declares-war-on-student-autonomy/
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University of Chicago dean declares war on student autonomy
[P. Z. Myers]
You’ve probably already seen this remarkable “welcome” letter
sent to incoming U of C students by Dean John Ellison. It’s
probably the dumbest statement I’ve ever seen from a dean. . .
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WvoQuXsZ1k
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University of Chicago: No Trigger Warnings and
No Safe Spaces (THE SAAD TRUTH_236)
Gad Saad
Aug 25, 2016
A wonderful letter from the Dean of Students in The College
(University of Chicago) to the incoming class of 2020. . .
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