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>>Facts are true by definition.
>Agreed
>>They can be combined to describe or explain a truth.
>Sounds a bit a**-backwards but OK
>>However, if the presented facts are incomplete (i.e. some are missing) then so the truth being described will be at least partially false or incomplete.
>Getting a bit stuck on a partially false truth......
>>Even if all the facts are true.......
>(see your first statement)
>>..... and all available we are left with the problem of accepting / interpreting / understanding them objectively (not possible) in order to
>determine the truth.
>Acceptance of facts should be a given. And if you reach a conclusion based on faulty interpretation or by being subjective then the truth of that conclusion is not sufficiently demonstrated and remains a supposition.
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>It's a complex issue which cannot be reduced to 'Facts != Truth' .
>I think I started this by claiming that 'Fact != Truth' was inherently false anyway.

Essentially facts is not the same as truth; Although facts in themselves may be true they are always consumed within the context of one's ideological framework to create one's truth. Hence facts and truth are not the same.