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A statement which cannot be false.
edterri7788, 5/30/11
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Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
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The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
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an information asserted to be true, e.g. something proven to exist, an event that has happened, or a statement true on the basis of reasoning; in that sense, fact is not merely a datum (or data) because it involves the criteria of truth. datum, data information game : chess acronym
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Information that corresponds to reality.
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A repeatable arrangement of Mercy experiences. If Perceiver strategy sees that certain Mercy items occur together often, it accepts these connections as a fact. Facts involve mainly automatic Perceiver thought. Beliefs and truth, in contrast, always live within the internal Perceiver world.
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The arrangement of a single Mercy situation, the emotions of which fool Perceiver thought into thinking that this arrangement will be repeated in other situations. A 'belief' or 'truth' is a strengthened form of 'fact.'
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A thing done; the quality of having actual existence in the real world; a piece of information presented as having objective reality; an event or thing known to have happened or existed; a truth verifiable from experience or observation.
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a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"
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an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
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a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
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a claim about the world, and may be true or false
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a concept that depicts an accurate view of an Objective Reality
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a contemptible thing
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a dangerous thing
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a datum or bit of knowledge the empirical truth value of which is considered, at least statistically incontestable and credible
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a delightful, wholesome thing
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an accurate description of an object or event or a statement that can be proved true
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an actual and absolute reality as distinguished from fiction or error
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an actual proven truth, or anything said by a politician that starts with either "I cannot recall" or "I did not have relations with
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an assertion that a relationship exists between two entities
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an established truth , something that is evident , clearly seen, indisputable, beyond doubt
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an event, an occurrence, or something that exists in reality
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an indisputable actuality
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an objective truth
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a physical event, or existence, that is actual and true, rather than a probability, chance, opinion, or theory (see below)
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a predicate containing no variables or domain functions
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a predicate that is always true
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a proven statement
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a real event or a thing that can be demonstrated to exist
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a rule with an emtpy (always true) body
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a simple statement that everyone believes
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a specific statement which can be checked or proven true
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a statement about reality that is verifiable by others
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a statement of conditions known to be true
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a statement of observable truth
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a statement of the logic that we know is true
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a statement that a relationship exists between its arguments
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a statement that can be checked or proven to be true
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a statement that can be proven by verifiable information
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a statement that can be verified--the number of students in a class, the law of gravity, the presence of a virus in a blood specimen
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a statement that conforms to the grammatical precepts of the language it is expressed and whose vocabulary research, investigation, and inquiry dictate as warranted to assert
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a statement that has survived a process of testing
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a statement used in a particular context that can't be refuted through physical evidence within that context
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a statement which can be proven to be true
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a statement which is so well supported by the evidence that no reasonable person would doubt it
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a stubborn thing to deal with, so, a little bit later, German officials confirmed the impounding of military equipment in Hamburg
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a thought that is true
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a truth about the game's setting, as established by the players
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a truth as opposed to fiction or mistake
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a truth derived from a statement where a promise must be both received and claimed
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a truth that can be applied to many things
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a truth that can't be denied, the officials of New Orleans and others have been praised for getting organized as much as they could and getting people out
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a truth unsexed
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a universal truth
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a verifiable objective truth
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a verified statement of what is
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a very ordinary thing, a design is a higher thing
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a very poor thing, a momentary thing
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Something that is known to have happened or to be true or to exist
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An actual event or a true statement.
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A claim that is either true or for which there is excellent evidence or justification. Sometimes “fact” is used for the circumstances asserted by such a claim, as when we say that a claim “states a fact.” This means only that the claim is true or that there is excellent evidence or justification for it.
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A statement about the relationship between objects.
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an observable action or truth
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A thing that has actually happened or is really true. Facts are capable of being "proven," although people still do not always agree on what the facts are.
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something that is true, (and usually can be proven)
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A piece of information presented as having objective reality. (Objective reality = having reality independent of mind); something that has actual existence; In fact: in truth. (See 'belief', 'faith')
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A thing that is known to have occurred, to exist, or to be true. It is a piece of factual evidence. See Rules of Court: Rules 305(1).
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An event known to have happened or something known to have existed; an assertion that can be proved. The most important term with which a private investigator must become familiar.
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knowledge or information based on real occurrences; a thing that has been done; something shown to exist; something known to have existed; a real occurrence; something believed to be true; an event
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information in the database which is always true.
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An indisputable truth.
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