Treating facts as neutral blocks requires a theory to organize them
Evidence
In contrast, country-westerners assumed that they had to know ‘‘all the facts’’ in order to have an opinion on an issue, not an analysis, not a broad overview. There was no way to connect very personal fears to such neutral, unanalyzed information — they could not locate themselves in relation to these inert, indisputable facts. The devaluation of talk itself is a thread running through all of this, connecting the overly individualized, personal approach to the assumption that there is a world of neutral dead facts out there, unconnected to us. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1100
Categorization
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1100
- XREF: connects to: No one can absorb facts without an implicit theory to organize them — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1101; Reasoning requires recognizing real logical connections and relationships among facts — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 247; News values are value-loaded systems presented as neutral technical protocols — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Facts become science only when tied together by explanatory theory
#corroborates(0.90) - Reasoning requires recognizing real logical connections and relationships among facts
#expands(0.85) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 247 - Understanding arises only from perceiving causal links among facts, not from the facts themselves
#expands(0.85) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 471 - News values are value-loaded systems presented as neutral technical protocols
#exemplifies(0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872