Give me excellent arguments why fact is better than fancy?

Question

Fancy and fact have clashed for a lot of times. In my class we are doing an argument about fact vs fancy and i am arguing that fact is better than fancy. I have had some ideas but i want also your input. tell me all about why fact is better than fancy. For your information, this argument is based on Hard times, Charles Dickens's book. Put everything you've got! It's an argument so fire with everything and every example and quote you have!!!

Answer 1

Fact is grey, fancy colourful
Fact is fixed, fancy flexible
Fact is solid, fancy liquid
Fact is lonely, fancy social
Fact is knowledge, fancy imagination
Fact is tough, fancy malleable
Fact is human, fancy God

Answer 2

Unfortunately, they both have their good points and bad points. Fact is better than fancy when you're looking for truth, but fancy is better than fact when you're looking for creativity.
The main problem is in determining what is fact? That's a question people will ask forever. I think Tommy Lee Jones said it best:

"A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew it was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

Sure, there are a few laws, like the law of Gravity, that we've proven again and again, but all in all we've relatively few of those.
In the end, both fact and fancy serve vital purposes in human existence.

Answer 3

Cute nickname...

Fact is better than fancy (or fantasy?) because it gives you a starting point in which to lift off to fancy. Without fact, as the fact that we sit here in the flesh, there would be no reality to create the fancy.

How's that?

Answer 4

Sorry but I dont believe in one side of the argument only. Fact is better when you need to get from one place to another. Where taste is concerned, fancy is better; you don't need to copy a recipe completely, you can modify it to your heart's content.

For every issue, there are both pros and cons depending on the context. Every issue has 2 faces, none is the better; just where you apply makes it better.

Answer 5

"Fact" is an understanding of patterns. "Fancy" is the putting together of patterns in new ways (i.e., putting together patterns of phenomena, imagined or factual, in ways that are not explicit in the patterns themselves).

Without both, we would not be here typing away on these computers. Without fact, for example the understanding of electricity, the information to create computers would not have existed. But there is nothing in electricity (or any of the other natural phenomena involved in computers) that implies computers. It required the creativity of putting known facts together in new ways that resulted in the computer. That is, fancy and imagination was necessarily for the existence of the computer. Nothing would ever have been invented if not for fancy, because:

Fancy is how things "could be", facts are how things "are". If we had only relied on how things are, we would never have moved out of the stone age because we could never imagine things different (we could never imagine how things could be), if we had only relied on how things could be, we would never have moved out of the stone age (because we would have no infomation).

Just knowing how things are is not sufficient to creating new things, just knowing how things could be has nothing to build upon without knowledge of how things work.

So put simply, I think undertaking an impossible task, namely demonstrating that fact is "better" than fansy (and anyone arguing the reverse is equally left with an impossible task), because one without the other gets us nowhere.

How can you prove that fact is "better" than fancy solely relying on facts when the very word "better" falls into the realm of fansy? How can you "prove" that fancy is better than fact solely relying on fancy when the very word "prove" falls into the realm of fact?

Good luck!

Answer 6

There is no such thing as fact. Even Socrates said, in regards to knowledge, that "knowledge is virtue", and of course, Socrates was a paragon of virtue by comparison to everyone else in the dialogues. But Socrates says of the level of virtue that he has attained as being an "unsatisfactory half-way house, founded merely on true beliefs and not on knowledge".
What we perceive as "fact" is really just what we consider an "absolute" belief, and there lies no belief in existence that cannot at the same time, be doubted, or disputed. Because all belief is personal and based on personal perspective. Our perspectives can be misleading, therefore our "beliefs" can be skewed. Take for example the situation where someone gradually brings us, by a process of arguement, to the admission that we do now "believe" something which we had at first, in all honesty, dismissed as nonsense. Like believing the earth was round. As the evidence set out piece by piece, and our attention drawn to considerations whose force we had before failed to appreciate, we become aware that our initial attitude of hostility to the situation, is being slowly replaced by one of favor; and eventually our increasing favor reaches a climax where, no objections of consequence remain to trouble us, so we feel obliged to yield to the point and frankly admit, "All right! I believe it now!" And this is just how the "fact" of "the earth is flat" came about. Like I said, it's all based on a "justified" true "belief". There is no fact.

Answer 7

The reason fact is better is because it will help you survive and is in tune with reality.

If you live in a fantasy world, you will not be able to eat and survive.

example: i am lost in the woods. i fantasize that i am in a wizard's house. so i don't work on solving the problem, getting found, etc. the fantasy will distance us from reality which is where we really live.

example: i fantasize that there is no gravity. but when i try to live like that it won't work. because there really is gravity.

example: i fantasize that i will get a great, high-paying job withough working or going to school or trying hard. but this magical world will not come true and it will keep me from investing the effort necessary to really get a good career.

fantasy is an escape from reality.
reality is where our bodies really live.
we need air to breathe, and fantasizing that we don't will not help you keep from dying if you can't breathe. because it just isn't true.

you can fantasize that cooked food will appear on the table.
but it won't really happen. y ou have to get up and cook it.

keep to the truth, live in harmony with REALITY for true happiness.

Answer 8

Read the prophecies William Blake. He disagrees with fact being better than fancy in a thoroughly original manner....

Answer 9

For us doctors, before we prescribe a medication, we should be convinced that it is effective through evidenced based studies. We dont believe in hearsay! For me, fact would be better than fancy.

Answer 10

Fact is better. It doesn't have 'ifs or 'buts'. All fancies are based on facts, when facts are fried with lies and garnished with imagination is perfect recipe of fancy.