Whoa, that's pretty darn far from a fact. The UN has been picking Canada, although its reasons are probably political, and as far as the poor are concerned it's probably some socialist country like Sweden. I don't actually know. I just know that you can't go around making such statements as if they aren't opinions.
- I looked that up recently and report from memory, but the details should be available in any almanac. - Tim
I assume you are referring to the claim about the standard of living in the United States. I would politely take issue with the notion that one can simply look up a "fact" like that in an almanac.
As a counterpoint, it is worth pointing out that Canada has been ranked number one on the United Nations Human Development Index for about six years running. I would not claim that this means that Canada has the highest standard of living in the world, however.
Standard of living is per capita income? I think that's even further from a fact...at least, you would be hard-pressed to defend it. If I was paid well, but had to work 20 hours a day in a poorly ventilated cardboard tube and eat rice-cakes, would I have a high standard of living?
Well, when I say "far from a fact", I don't mean false...just not true. :)
LarrySanger would like to point out that, according to TheLawOfNoncontradiction, if it ain't true, it's false.
That's not the law of non-contradiction, that's TertiumNonDatur. And it doesn't always hold. For instance, the sentence x+3=4 is neither true nor false until we assign a value to x. That's the very essence of semantics.
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