The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #103515   Message #2109699
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
23-Jul-07 - 09:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stealing A Nation
Subject: RE: BS: Stealing A Nation
There's a difference between truth and fact. Facts can be measured empirically. Truth cannot. Facts tell us what happened, but not why. The facts as outlined in Peace's post above tell us what happened. What we don't know is why the particular course of action was taken or what justifications were used. To get to "why" one must look at human motivations which is something no empirical data collector is going to be able to do.