Open-minded Skepticism

And how do we figure out what causes produce what effects?

Coyote's definition of fact has nothing to do with cause and effect.We can observe that the sun rises in the east without any reference to the possible causes or effects of this event.

If a fact is irrefutable then it has no place in science.What's more, it would mean that there are, essentially, no such things as 'facts', since history has shown us that pretty much everything we've known at any particular time has eventually been shown to be wrong in some way and that everything we know today will also likely be shown wrong at some time in the future.So it is you who think facts mean nothing. Everyone else here, by understanding facts in their context and relationship to us and what we already know, appreciates the way facts weave together with our lives, our experiences, and our prejudices to create deeper understandings of the world around us. Your understanding of 'fact' is entirely useless.

I bought a pack of small yellow notebooks once. Used them for writing everything. Then one day I noticed that the package called them "green". What the hell?So I pointed it out to my girlfriend, "Look, these things say that they're green.""That's because they are," she said.

How can we know that we know a 'true fact' and how can we know that the fact is 'true'? How exactly do you think we get facts?Because we either gather them through observation of the world around us or make them up in our heads.Which one is it?

Color itself doesn't even exist outside our ability to observe it.

Nope.The wavelengths are on the spectrum.But the color is a reaction of our eyes, brain, and other factors to those wavelengths. Or maybe it's the color yellow...

Pff... five is nothing.I'm sure if we asked a mantis shrimp what he thought of our 'color facts', our ignorance of 'reality' would give him quite a laugh.