(September 17, 2017 at 11:21 am)SteveII Wrote: Multiple assertions of the same fact is verification.
Multiple assertions of the same claim absent any corroborating evidence is just that -- assertion. That doesn't get you to 'fact'.
Every mark who ever got taken by two or more con artists was given multiple assertions of the same "facts". However, I doubt in retrospect any of them would acknowledge the truth of the claims they were sold. Only that they were gullible in believing.