Economist John Keynes was quoted as saying, “When the facts change, I change my mind.“ Which sounds as a statement distinctly lacking intellectual honesty. Turned out what he actually said was, “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions.”
There is a subtle, but important difference between, “the facts” and ”the conclusions”. The former refers to some objective change, that is, or should be, apparent to all: the latter to the speaker's knowledge of relevant facts.
But in times rich with ‘planted facts’, how is one to reliably distinguish between objective and subjective facts?
We do live in difficult times!
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