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factness

noun

Etymology

From fact + -ness. Piecewise doublet of featness.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as factness — “fact + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being based on facts.

    • This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base.

  2. The quality of being a fact.

    • The crucial question, then, is to what extent is the factness of a fact dependent on coherence?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA