Claims, Assertions, Statements
CLAIM
Expression "supposedly" true
Not ALL are true
Some LIES
Some mistaken belief
Not straightfowardly true or false
Spoken, writtem or thought
STATEMENT
Grammatical sense
Distinguish between
ASSERTION
Can be made in different ways
Judged to be true or false
DECLARATIVES
INTERROGATIVES
IMPERATIVES
DIVIDE
FACTS
OPINIONS
True statement
State
Claim
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Only if it is really a fact
You can be mistaken or lying
Pureley an opinion
Knwon fact
You can check it
SUBJECTIVE
Truth decided by individual
OBJETIVE
Value Judgements
Opinions about perceived value or worth or rightness of things
Predictions and Probabilities
Something may or may not be true because is still in the future, or is as yet unverified
Claim to fact
Unless or until there is more factual evidence avaiable
Truth exists and is there to be discovered
OBJECTIVE
Hypotheses
True or false
True or false
If cannot be made with certainty
Made with degree of probability
Probabilities of a very high order
Even when they are geenerally accepted as true
Recommendations
How things ought to be
RHETHORICAL QUESTIONS
Making an assertion