Good writing illuminates surprising things about reality. It must therefore be grounded in reality.
It must therefore illuminate, as well .
There a kind of bad writing that only states concrete facts, and expects the reader to draw the “obvious” conclusion.
Why are you writing? If you are trying to change someone,’s mind, you need to present them with new facts, or new reactions,inferences ,etc from facts. If you just present them with facts they already know, without any novel interpretation,why would they change their minds?
Don’t argue
Do argue: why would anyone want to read a recitation of facts with no overall point.?
Most people are right most of the time about most things
Perhaps about practical things. But given the great variety of religious, political, ethical, and philosophical.ideas, and how evenly distributed they are, it would be very hard to say that most people are right about abstract, impractical things.
It must therefore illuminate, as well .
There a kind of bad writing that only states concrete facts, and expects the reader to draw the “obvious” conclusion.
Why are you writing? If you are trying to change someone,’s mind, you need to present them with new facts, or new reactions,inferences ,etc from facts. If you just present them with facts they already know, without any novel interpretation,why would they change their minds?
Do argue: why would anyone want to read a recitation of facts with no overall point.?
Perhaps about practical things. But given the great variety of religious, political, ethical, and philosophical.ideas, and how evenly distributed they are, it would be very hard to say that most people are right about abstract, impractical things.