> How different is this, really, from the Chomskyite belief that once
> people know the facts (as we present them), they'll reach the right
> conclusions?
I don't think things go in quite that simple a fashion, but I definitely believe that getting the facts out helps to some degree, as compared with the facts not getting out. Who doesn't?
Besides the facts, though, the frames in which they are put are equally important -- if not more important, sometimes. George Lakoff, the Berkeley linguistics prof, and his colleagues at the Rockridge Institute (www.rockridgeinstitute.org) are doing some very important work on this.
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