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Fact and truth

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Ishmael Wallace
Jul 02, 2026
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Dear Friends,

Who we are in truth can inform who we are in fact1.

Fact is a small cross-section of truth: truth after it has happened, seen by a third person. It is what sociology can see. Fact is always the product of a past, determined by a past; were fact all, there would be no redemption.

The fact point of view, we find well expressed in a poem by Auden:

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