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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
true facts
 
 
In a world where all facts really are true, true facts is a redundancy, but, alas, in our world many things alleged to be facts turn out not to be factual after all, so sometimes a distinction and an additional emphasis may be required to help sort out the true ones from the false ones.  1
 
 
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