Meaning of facthood | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being factual; factuality.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts.”

“There are other evolutionary hypotheses that have not yet garnered sufficient evidence and whose "facthood" is still in question, especially ones having to do with particular pathways of descent or with the relative importance of natural selection versus drift, for example, as the cause of some particular biological feature.”

“The popular press is awash in facthoods. Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.”

“The test is this: formulate schemata with regard to truth, facthood, and representation of the same logical form. Then see whether their substitution instances are at least logically equivalent.”

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