GaryDog
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What exactly is the assumption or definition of fact here?
We are in the age of information.
Here is an example of how I approach tax policy: The Fact is that tax policy causes individuals and businesses to adjust their behavior in accordance with their self interests. Thus a static evaluation of raising or lowering taxes is a fundamentally flawed undertaking. The only objective evaluation of tax policy is the measurement of Net Government Revenues, that is, the balance of anticipated revenues and expenditures over a period of time.
If raising taxes results in reduced employment, then whatever increase in tax revenues may be offset by an increase in expenditures related to unemployment. Conversely, a reduction in taxes may result in an even greater reduction in expenditures, thereby creating a Net Government Surplus.
As a result, I think that tax policy should be driven by empirical data and not someone's feelings about "fairness."
So you feel empirical data is the best way to make your decisions.
There must be a distinction between fact and perception.
Although perceptions are always true, facts are not.
Perceptions will concern the individual only, therefore are always true to the individual. They have origin in the individual's past, they proceed into the individual's future.
That's the reason for which we have psychiatric wards. Because it is possible that an individual will be convinced to the extreme that his perception is the same as fact, willing to prove by force that no other fact is supportive of no other perception.
Facts are enterprises, often presented first in a blueprint or planned possibility, and then continued and established upon the verification of benefits for necessarily inclusive and including perspectives, or otherwise discontinued at their blueprint stage, upon the verification that there are no benefits for necessarily inclusive and including perspectives.
Empirical data is what constitutes of perception, always true to the individual by the influence of his, her or their imagination.
Empirical data cannot establish facts, but facts can only be initiated through empirical data.
People have different empirical experiences, which explains why people have different empirical preferences and is the reason why no person should be offended by an opinion or by an honest expression of their perception.
A fact, however, is when after those perceptions have been captured into descriptions to be expressed and opinionated they may or may not proceed into enterprises through collaboration or decline of other individuals with their own and unique perceptions and preferences so their experiences may be improved or guarded.
LOL facts are ALWAYS true. Interpretation of facts can of course lead to trouble, but that doesn't change the truth. Facts are facts.
How about global climate change, and man's effects on it? What's your "feeling" there? What are the facts?