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Fact and Fiction: Spot The Difference.

StarWhisper

18:14 / 23.09.06

Does any body else find this upsetting? I am still too traumatised to offer a good explanation as to why, when I viewed this classification I thought I was going to cry. Fiction: Isn't true in a factual sense Can offer emotional truths And a moral framework Raises Questions Non-fiction(Academic): Uses specific terminology Divided into disciplines Is objective Answers questions that it sets. BOTH KINDS OF WRITING ARE CONCERNED WITH TRUTH

Spaniel

18:34 / 23.09.06

Seems reasonable enough to me, in a heuristic sense at least.

What exactly's upsetting you so much, Eird

StarWhisper

12:41 / 24.09.06

I am still not entirely sure. I think it it is because, although heuretically speaking this is useful, it's incorrect. The same thing happened when I read the Essay

Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History

Kindly recommended by Alas in my Headshop thread. There is a circular argument in one of the end paragraphs. Although this is pointed out by the author directly, it had the same effect those classifications. It upset me.

StarWhisper

13:23 / 24.09.06

Also, alot of why I am displeased by the division above is that these differences mostly appear disputable. Hence the title of the thread.

astrojax69

00:45 / 25.09.06

what disputes would you have in particular? really, only the final assertion that both are concernd with truth strikes me as full of holes. mainly the rest seem quite lucid.

fiction can be entirely ficticious, i'd contend - such especially as nonsense poems, which really have no direct relation to truth (as we commonly regard the term).

but what are your concerns over these definitions?

StarWhisper

16:53 / 05.10.06

It was the it way it made me feel rather than what the definitions were that concerned me.
Glad to know there are actually a few holes in there though. Thanks.
I've been finding that since getting back into education that I have alot of idiosyncrasis concerning academic stuff that I never had before.
I just wrote a short story that left me positively unhinged and I wondered if anyone knew of why that sort of thing happens.
Maybe the topic and location of this thread is a bit off kilter, but I would still be interested to know if things related to writings, factual or otherwise, cause odd reactions in others.

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