Scientific fact | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact


00:01:27 1 Etymology and usage
00:03:49 2 In philosophy
00:04:41 2.1 Correspondence and the slingshot argument
00:05:27 2.2 Compound facts
00:06:38 2.3 Fact–value distinction
00:07:23 2.4 Factual–counterfactual distinction
00:08:26 3 In science
00:11:17 3.1 The scientific method
00:12:09 4 In history
00:13:50 5 In law
00:14:52 5.1 Legal pleadings
00:15:58 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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A fact is a thing that is known to be consistent with objective reality and can be proven to be true with evidence. For example, "this sentence contains words" is a linguistic fact, and "the sun is a star" is a cosmological fact. Further, "Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States" and "Abraham Lincoln was assassinated" are also both facts. All of these statements have the epistemic quality of being ontologically superior to opinion or interpretation — they are either categorically necessary or supported by adequate historical documentation. Conversely, while it may be both consistent and true that "most cats are cute", it's not a fact. Generally speaking, facts transcend belief and serve as concrete descriptions of a state of affairs on which beliefs can later be assigned.
The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability — that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement by experiments or other means.