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Re:When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew Wh... by Dylan16807 on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:48PM (#8840372)
'fact' generally excludes unreasonable uncertainty. Otherwise you've wandered into an area of philosophy where nothing is a fact. And that is not the general meaning of the word.

And credibility is a measure of how close their assertions are to the truth, how is that a logical error?

Re:When a Cartoonist Landed in L.A. County Jail, She Drew Wh... by dragonwriter on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:54PM (#8840415)
> Otherwise you've wandered into an area of philosophy where nothing is a fact.

Or, rather, the area of philosophy where only the class of facts which can be certainly described as such are the facts of having particular present sensations (whether the kind that present as sense-data or the kind that present as memories) is a fact, and all other ideas about the world are either axioms or conclusions supported on the basis of either axioms, sensations, or a combination of the two.

Of course, when you leave that area of philosophy, you are in the area of fuzzy and imprecise thinking, so its not a bad area of philosophy to be in.