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Verbal vs. Factual Disputes

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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A factual dispute is about the world; a verbal dispute is about words, and dissolves once terms are precised.

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"Is a hot dog a sandwich?" — verbal. "Is this freezer below zero?" — factual.

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Verbal disputes feel factual from inside. The tell: both sides agree on every underlying fact.

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