The European Enlightenment would not have happened without the printing press.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Reasoning
Counterfactual about history.
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Yann LeCun, “The European Enlightenment would not have happened without the printing press.” (said 8 March 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_2a200ab993b5, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_2a200ab993b5
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