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I was in a class once where the teacher said "does anyone know the difference between fact and fiction?" (This was at a university in Wales with a poor reputation.) It's potentially an interesting question. You can look at Oliver Stone and "faction", and that sort of thing, the fact that history and story are the same word in some languages. The answer she wanted was "fact is true, and fiction is made up".
If you want to aim higher than a class like that, you shouldn't be accused of elitism. The anti-elitism thing let Bush run America for too long: "Hey, you want a smart person to run the world? You're an elitist...let's have this guy instead..."
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