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The Problem with Actual Facts

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 33.

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The Problem with Actual Facts

ONE of our exchanges very sensibly remarks that “when a man speaks of ‘actual facts,’ we suspect his mental processes; for he evidently thinks that there can be facts that are not actual. To speak of a round circle, or of a two-wheeled bicycle, is not simple tautology: it is inaccurate thinking. The fault is not in the tongue, but in the brain.”