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 A bullshit artist’s tell. Something inconvenient or embarrassing that happened, but for which there is currently no proof or credible supporting or evidence.
-To be contrasted something that did ''not'' happen, which may comfortably described as “false”.<ref>We owe this observation to, among others, David Allen Green. </ref> Substantiation is thus a second-order property of a fact: something that, in the eyes of the outside world, falls, in [[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]], between a “[[known known]]” and an “[[unknown known]]” — call it a “[[suspected known][” —but to the person making the statement, is squarely in the latter category.
+To be contrasted something that did ''not'' happen, which may comfortably described as “false”.<ref>We owe this observation to, among others, David Allen Green. </ref>
+Thus, it is easy enough to disarm, by asking, “but is it untrue?”
+“Substantiation” is thus a second-order property of a fact: something that, in the eyes of the outside world, falls, in [[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]], between a “[[known known]]” and an “[[unknown known]]” — call it a “[[suspected known]]” —but to the person making the statement, is squarely in the latter category.
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 *[[Truth]]
 *[[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]]