15 August, 2011

What are facts?

Facts are as quoted from a record, from a page in history. Then  facts are based on the records that someone might have made. A generic bias is likely to creep in given any person's mental thinking, background and abilities. Also since history favors the winner, may not record complete, unedited facts. So facts are actually perspectives of  people who make a note of it. Thus facts could infact be perceptions because in reality we see more as per our perceptions, not according to unbiased, complete truth. Truth becomes what we perceive to be true. Then what is the difference between fact, real, truth from anything that is not a part of it.