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RE: The lies we believe

in #psychology5 years ago

Thanks, it should be fixed now.

and I still wonder about fiction/non-fiction, and why the primary word is about make believe, and the secondary (non-fiction) is about reality.

I have never been able o work this out either. I remember asking the librarian as a kid and she didn't provide any insight. Perhaps it is because as a species that passes information through stories, the fiction is more important than the fact for the memory.

and to an extent, (a growing extent), anything on the internet is viewed as the truth, as non-fiction.

The internet offers a truth for everyone, no mater the kink, there is evidence to support it.

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My wife always struggles with the Fiction/non-fiction thing; I think for this reason. The real one should be the base word.
Real/non-real

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=non-fiction

Seems the word fiction came first by a long way and had established its position for prose a few hundred years before "non-fiction" came on the scene.

They could have just used factual though.