The Future of Facts

I have the truth on my side.

Now we know what happens.

Don't you see the way everything fits in?

I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you.

(b) Verification of the facts and full and public disclosure of the truth

This is a fact or, as we say in my hometown of Washington, D.C., a true fact.

The same old John, pouring out the same old cascade of truths, halftruths and distortions.

I swear by Almighty God... that the evidence I shall give, shall be the truth, the whole truth... and nothing but the truth.

If you wish, you may be seated while giving your evidence.

Homer, why can't you ever understand the way things really are the way I really feel?

And the official truth, the truth was, the law was, that a black man was a property, was a thing, you see.

A common man can hide behind a veil of silence, but you're not ordnary.

I don't get it, in fact I don't believe it. It's the truth, I swear it is.

Behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

I'm gonna give you the truth. You'll think I'm nuts, but it's the truth.

Nothing is too trivial if it helps us to arrive at the truth.

We thank the Court for its advisory opinions, which represent the truth.

The only thing singing today would be the facts, for I have truly embraced by inner nerd.

Enter the evidence based activist, the factivist.

I believe in real life.

Luckily now things have changed because I came to discover the truth.

You're ignoring the fact this wasn't a normal body.

the whole truth.

That is simply contradicted by the facts.

But did you not stand in that box and swear by Almighty God... that you'd tell the truth... the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Plato thought that three conditions must be met in order for us to know something the notion in question must actually be true we must believe it (because if we do not believe something that is true, we can hardly claim that we know it) and, most subtly, it must be justifiable there must be reasons why we believe the notion to be true.

What I say is true.

Wilt thou indeed believe what cannot come to pass?

The facts are still there, Henry. I don't believe they are facts.

True story.

The truth of the matter is otherwise.

It's the other way around.

Do you really believe that story?

I hate to seem executive, but this is serious.

But actually, just the opposite is happening.

No, not really. I'm rather oldfashioned, as a matter of fact.

What is truer than truth? Answer The story.

On the merits, Iraq objects to the Claim on a number of financial and technical grounds.

Actually, exactly the opposite is what I'm going to do.

If you knew what really happened, if you only knew the truth

A true story.

The reality is really, very different.

In fact, the results were exactly the opposite.

Yes.