+Economy & Policy | 1300 days ago

Books: John Muir was using ‘factiness’ long before Stephen Colbert

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Stephen Colbert still deserves credit for “truthiness.” But it turns out its relative “factiness,” which Colbert purported to coin early last year, was already in use in the 1870s. This is from a letter written by naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir after his first meeting with the great botanist Asa Gray in 1872: [...]