‘True facts’, ‘false facts’ and the burden of truth telling
By Dr. Kwame Akuffo Anoff-Ntow LISTEN
MAR 3, 2021
Two of my favourite inscriptions on vehicles in Ghana are “Return to Sender” and “True Fact”. Whilst the former has a retributive cynicism to it, the latter strikes me for its seeming lack of ambiguity. It is for this reason that I invoke it as a heading to enable me to explore the question of what is a fact, and its corollary of whether or not there are “false facts”.
By extension, it hints at whether or not it requires that the teller of truth owe it to his/her intended audience to disclose the truth about a fact.
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