IMHO this also depends on the type of assertion.. For example, one system defines three broad classes of assertion : pure opinion (I like green); factual references (the current temperature here is 20c) ; and the rest in a catch-all about "reasoned judgements"

Complex assertions and their compounded forms can be filtered by these classes fairly easily. I rarely see this referenced in general comments.

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BugsJustFindMe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> pure opinion (I like green)

"I like green" is a statement of fact about what you like. "Green is good" would be an opinion. It's funny to me how often people mix the two.

> forms can be filtered by these classes fairly easily

Obviously not so easily. :)

	▲	mistrial9 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		opinion is ephemeral, cannot be independently confirmed or denied; purely single viewer information sounds like not-a-fact to me Opinion is a ghost in the machine—fleeting, unanchored, and vanishing upon inspection. It leaves no footprint for another mind to verify, no independent trail of evidence to confirm or deny its existence. To rely on such solitary perception is to drift in a void where facts do not exist; it is not merely uncertainty, but an absence of reality itself—a whisper that the universe refuses to echo back. --AI Carl Sagan