Factify

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.

    "the machinery you use to construct this comforting world of facts involves things that don't themselves belong in that world. When you build your construct you conveniently forget all the stuff that does not end up as part of it. But, of course, we can factify anything. There is a table, there is a blurriness, there is a sensation of hardness"

Example

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"the machinery you use to construct this comforting world of facts involves things that don't themselves belong in that world. When you build your construct you conveniently forget all the stuff that does not end up as part of it. But, of course, we can factify anything. There is a table, there is a blurriness, there is a sensation of hardness"

Etymology

From fact + -ify.

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