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> but what happens in real life

Facts are pertinent to real life. Fiction is not.

> how some things can be more complicated than the naive first order view (factually false = useless)

1. Facts are not first order, but applicable at arbitrarily higher orders as well.

2. Factually false claims aren't useless, they quite clearly identify the biases of the people who perpetuate them.



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