[Ads-l] Again: "fact" = claim; assertion

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From the UPenn _Daily Pennsylvanian_ :

" Trump, who graduated from Wharton in 1968, has also never challenged the
fact that he "graduated first in his class,"
<http://www.salon.com/2011/05/03/donald_trump_wharton/> which various
publishers and news agencies such as _The New York Times_ have reported.
...[But I]n 1968, The Daily Pennsylvanian published a list of the 56
students who were on the Wharton Dean’s List that year — Trump’s name is
not among them."

"Claim, assertion, idea."

JL



On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 4:34 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Donald J. Trump on Truth Social:
>
> “I have been unfairly sued by the Trump Hating Democrat Attorney General
> of New York State, Letitia James, over the false fact that I inflated my
> Financial Statements in order to borrow money from Banks, etc,”
>
> Clearly "idea, claim, or allegation."
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 5:58 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Four young women have been found murdered in Atlantic City. On Court
>> TV this evening, Catherine Crier asked the father of one of the victims
>> what he thought of reports that the women were "fprostitutes."  The father
>> responded by saying,
>>
>> "If there is any truth to that fact it has nothing to with my daughter."
>>
>> This seems to me to be another example of this usage, whose existence has
>> been questioned here.
>>
>> JL
>>
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>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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