Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is “truth value” supposed to mean?

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry, I wasn’t explaining myself well.

    Just because a story isn’t factually true, doesn’t mean that it has no value, or negative value. There are other types of values which can supersede factual value:

    • aesthetic
    • symbolic
    • ethical
    • didactic

    Truth isn’t always about facts. Sometimes factual statements can be used as a weapon of deceit.

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    • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are other types of value, of course. It’s just funny to specifically call the apple out for being a myth. The entire story is a myth, so they could have made it a pomelo for all I care.

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