{"id":5035,"date":"2017-01-30T10:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:18:30","slug":"more-on-alternative-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"More on Alternative Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?attachment_id=5036\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5036 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/2017\/01\/trump-bunny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>Talisse and I have a short piece over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2017\/01\/alternative-facts-and-the-necessity-of-liberal-education.html\"><em>3QuarksDaily<\/em><\/a> on the heat\/light ratio in the &#8216;Alternative Facts&#8217; reaction.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In many ways, it&#8217;s a follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5025\">John&#8217;s earlier observation<\/a> that Conway, on a more charitable interpretation, should have used a term like &#8216;rebutting&#8217; or &#8216;complicating&#8217; facts, since she&#8217;s talking about the evidence for the attendance claims.<\/p>\n<p>The point: a little training in the argumentative culture of the humanities helps with these distinctions. The sad irony is that a representative of the Trump administration is hamstrung by the use of language in an area the administration is actively trying to undermine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talisse and I have a short piece over at 3QuarksDaily on the heat\/light ratio in the &#8216;Alternative Facts&#8217; reaction.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In many ways, it&#8217;s a follow-up to John&#8217;s earlier observation that Conway, on a more charitable interpretation, should have used a term like &#8216;rebutting&#8217; or &#8216;complicating&#8217; facts, since she&#8217;s talking about the evidence for the attendance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Alternative Facts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,187],"tags":[2101,2100],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-strange-terms","tag-alternative-facts","tag-kellyanne-conway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}