I wanted to edit something in, but it's been too long now. I think a big issue is that people (including me in my original post) conflate the term fact with th

I wanted to edit something in, but it's been too long now. I think a big issue is that people (including me in my original post) conflate the term fact with the term truth. Many things people say are indeed facts, but that doesn't mean they are true (or provable to the receiver). A fact is merely something that is possible to be proven (or disproven). A truth is something that is true; a verifiably proven fact. Simply telling someone facts does not make them truths to the receiver. You have not provided them the ability to prove the facts to be true. You've merely asserted them. So put another way: I may say that it is possible to change people's minds with facts, but you also need to provide the function of turning the fact into a truth. Facts are easy to claim and very abundant. Truths are extremely rare, and for nearly everything we merely work with statistically likely truths.