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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

factness en · NOUN

Etymology

From fact + -ness. Piecewise doublet of featness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. (uncountable) 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: