Factness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being based on facts. uncountable

    "This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base."

  2. 2
    The quality of being a fact. uncountable

    "The crucial question, then, is to what extent is the factness of a fact dependent on coherence?"

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"This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base."

Etymology

From fact + -ness. Piecewise doublet of featness.

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