The critical part is discerning truthiness from truth. Usually a truthy sounding statement will have a set of heavy underlying assumptions. Typical examples in

The critical part is discerning truthiness from truth. Usually a truthy sounding statement will have a set of heavy underlying assumptions. Typical examples include ideologies and economics. There's also a class of statements that cannot be reasonably verified, mostly pertaining to society and social organization. There, truth really does not exist unless someone (or nature) runs an experiment. Most ways of organizing society are valid, though some are mean/evil. Then again, some other ways are clearly hypocritical, illogical or demonstrably highly inefficient.