Facts, information, and knowledge - Not all the same

 

There are no facts, only interpretations - Friedrich Nietzsche. 

What is a fact? A snippet of information. Something you did not know. A fact is unprocessed information. It does not have any context. Information is processed facts. There is some meaning or context given to the fact. Knowledge will be the applied understanding of that information or fact. Anyone can spout facts with no meaning but facts are usually used in an argument. Facts are used to persuade. Facts, when used as a tool of persuasion, need to be turned into information through knowledge.

Are facts reality? Yes. Facts do not have feelings. Yet knowing facts is not useful without processing and some knowledge; that is where most get into trouble. The disagreement is not with the facts but with the interpretation.