Ha ha, whats funny is that no one even agrees what a fact is!
Definitions of fact on the web:
a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"
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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 statement or piece of information that is true or a real occurrence.
Www.Iteawww.Org/taa/glossary.Htm
(n.) in the context of logic programming, a fact is a horn clause with a head but no body.
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something that is known to have happened or to be true or to exist
www.Colorado.Edu/geography/virtdept/module
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a statement about the relationship between objects.
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numeric data that is the core of what is being analyzed.
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a relationship held between two or more entities
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an indisputable truth.
Www.Carm.Org/atheism/terms.Htm
that which is known to be true on the basis of observation.
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an indisputable truth.
Www.Carm.Net/atheism/terms.Htm
a fact is an expression which represents a true statement in the current world state.
Www.Laas.Fr/~felix/dekartes/propice-doc/no
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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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