factness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fact +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

factness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being based on facts.
    • 2013, Robert E. Butts, Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays[1]:
      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.
    • 2003, Lori J. Underwood, Kant's Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Analysis and Critique of Anglo-American Alternatives[2]:
      The crucial question, then, is to what extent is the factness of a fact dependent on coherence?