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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Lies, Damned Lies, and Teaching Fiction
There’s a quote, widely attributed to Mark Twain, which suggests that on the scale of relative falsehood, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, each worse than the last. This concept was brought to mind recently during a writing discussion, … Continue reading →
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Tagged fabrication, false, fiction, janet burroway, lies, lying, mark twain, philosophy, reductionism, teaching, true, truth, writing
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