This occurs when a person attempts—and epically fails—to *equate* knowledge with belief. THEY ARE NOT IDENTICAL IN ANY WAY. This is usually the mark of a mind which has lost its moorings to the systemic regularities that make our speech noises mutually intelligible.
This is brilliantly illustrated by Kellyanne Conway's infamous phrase, "alternative facts." Like Trump, she traffics in obfuscation and peddles confusion, inadvertently trumpeting the advent of our "post-factual era"...
Avoid intellectual primitivism... leave that to Betsy DeVos
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