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by nmalaguti 3499 days ago
What I took away from the article is that just as one may support an argument with 'truthiness' i.e. I feel it in my gut but have no facts or the facts oppose my argument, there may be a thing called 'factiness' where all the facts support your argument, but it misses the truth that others see and feel and that can't be quantified with traditional facts.

It is a good reminder that just as one should be wary of arguments supported only by truthiness, one should also be wary of arguments supported only by factiness.