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factness

factness noun: the quality of being based on facts.

Noun

factness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being based on facts.
    • This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base.2013, Robert E. Butts, Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays
  2. The quality of being a fact.
    • The crucial question, then, is to what extent is the factness of a fact dependent on coherence?2003, Lori J. Underwood, Kant's Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Analysis and Critique of Anglo-American Alternatives

Origin of factness

From fact + -ness. Piecewise doublet of featness.

Questions about factness

What does factness mean?
Factness means the quality of being based on facts.
What part of speech is factness?
Factness is a noun.

Words near factness in the dictionary

  1. factlessly
  2. factlessness
  3. factlet
  4. factlets
  5. factly
  6. factness
  7. factographer
  8. factographers
  9. factographic
  10. factography
  11. factoid

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