One problem with factual accuracy is that it is only part of the truth: the totality of reality (absolute context) is too vast, yet it is the only full accounting of the Truth. Thus, any truth claim necessarily relies on reduction, abstraction, and incompleteness.
(Perhaps there is “the truth of a situation” – the facts- but not “the Truth.”)
There is a conflation in which facts, such as cherry-picked statistics, are applied with a broader ideological brush as “truth,” leading to a split from the singular Truth to multiple “truths” at odds with each other. In essence, fragmentation of the whole by omission is deceit and manipulation: lies.
Many sages avoid this factual rigidity through observances, allegory, and parable: metaphorically displaying the complexity of the world and its relations to offer insight without a truth claim.
