Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What is fact?”, Leave a Reply below!
Fact is perception that what is known to be true, is true. Facts change regularly, so get used to it! What we understand to be true today may be shattered by news tomorrow.
To me a fact is something we can objectively agree on. Can we see, smell, taste, touch, or hear it? Fine it’s a fact, but don’t be so certain of the facts said the magician. Everything else should be about degree of confidence in the evidence.
I think a fact is an assertion you can presently make based on something observed in the real world. All facts are provisional (as is this definition), and serve as part of a larger framework of understanding because facts bear relationships to one another.
Again, semantics.
Fact is what is known to be true. There are very few, if no, facts to reality. Most of what we know is a highly probable statistically backed hypothesis that is so confirmed by inductive logic that we basically accept it as a fact. It’s important to realize however that because that is the nature of our knowledge, we can always be wrong. This helps you remain open to changing your mind if evidence to the contrary is ever shown to you.
Facts are what we know about the natural world. Falsifiable, verifiable and repeatable. Available for all to see and understand for themselves.
By setting up some rules and procedure if some thing is achived repeatedly then that achivement is called fact. It always depends on the pre-conditions.
can you have an ‘unknown’ fact?
A fact is a datum that has been proven through observation and/or logic.
this was the question i had , that lead me to this site , because there seem to be no rules about what fact,s are .
so there are differnt rule,s about facts .
so facts are an illusion.
for rules change.
What is a fact? LOL
… it is a fleeting observation…
whose life span is equal to the human attention span.
addendum…
Mr. Palmer speaks of “proofs” as a foundation to support the existence of facts as a real phenomenon.
But, proofs are measurements, and since all things measured are altered by the act of measuring, all “proofs” are of proof something other than the phenomenon observed (AKA… illusions).
We are blesses with numbero-philes… so that we can hit a orbital body with a space capsule, but their “Numerical Hierarchy” is no good replacement for a malleable reality.
Proof-o-philes rank equally high with religio-philes… (maybe this is why they hate each other so much?) They are competing for the same low ladder rung… LOL
something that you greatly believe is true, usually with evidence of it being true.