We Have Never Been Post-Truth (Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? pp. 81-82)

“We should not explain why some people believe by saying that is true, or corresponds to a fact, or the facts. For example: someone believes that the universe began with what for brevity we call a big bang.  A host of reasons now support this belief.  But after you have listed all the reasons, you should not add, as if it were an additional reason for believing in the big bang, ‘and it is true that the universe began with a big bang.’ Or, ‘and it is a fact.'”

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