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Originally Posted by zen_tom
Why is that? The layman's version has connotations of being wrong, I'm happy to accept degrees of wrongness.
A fact is something that is undeniably true, provable and unshakable. I don't know if there are many facts in the world, or even if there are, in the strictest terms, any at all. Since we are in a Philosophy forum here, usage of the term fact has to be very carefully considered.
We have no clue as to what we are, what energy or matter actually is, where it came from, let alone how it got organised into the way it appears to have done, or anything, we are adrift in a sea of the unknown. To think that there is such a thing as a fact is pretty presumptuous don't you think? That viewpoint may be a little extreme perhaps, but it works for me.
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What do you mean? It is a fact that i am typing this on a keyboard. It is a fact that my bluejeans are blue. It is a fact that i am currently being subject to a force that we call gravity. It is a fact that the ratio of a circle circumfrence to its diameter is pi, even though it is impossible for us to precisely define pi rationally. The number of facts in the world is only limited by one's ability to notice them. You could get all nihilist and claim that nothing exists, but if that's how you really felt, why would you waste time arguing with someone who doesn't even really exist?