> > it wouldn't be so incredibly difficult to determine.
> Never said it was easy.
My point is that this process of determination happens over time and in a non-linear fashion, so the corpus contains tons of noise around any given truth statement.
> > The corpus of written language is full of ambiguity and contradictory statements.
> Right, but the truth is the one set of information that logically cannot be contradictory.
> Never said it was easy.
My point is that this process of determination happens over time and in a non-linear fashion, so the corpus contains tons of noise around any given truth statement.
> > The corpus of written language is full of ambiguity and contradictory statements.
> Right, but the truth is the one set of information that logically cannot be contradictory.
Please refer to Godel's incompleteness theorem.