Re: Speak Your Truth
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:24:35 GMT
Message-ID: <Sok%c.127282$9d6.125193_at_attbi_s54>
"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_mail.ocis.net> wrote in message news:7tkqj0ds50525tvo981e2eii8uvujnnraf_at_4ax.com...
> >Everything everyone says everywhere is their opinion. That is,
> >they are describing the truth as best they understand it. (Unless
> >they are explicitly hypothesizing.)
> [...]
> I think so. You are not speaking from on high. Writing about
> ones uncertainties (in the sense of not being totally certain), I
> think focuses one on how true is it.
That would fall under the "exlicitly hypothesizing" clause.
Certainly there are degrees of conviction, and these can work their way into the language if relevant, which on a sentence-by- sentence basis, they typically aren't.
Marshall Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 17:24:35 CEST