factify

Definitions

To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.

Examples

“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”

“Where appropriate, Diana qualifies her statements. She does not transmute impersonal evidence into personal evidence to create⟳ a personality for Shakespeare as Schoenbaum does. She does not factify myth, as I show⟳ Park⟳ Honan and Anthony Holden doing above.”

“Such ambitions of authenticity function to factify the fiction, literally to prop it up, performing a positivist role as the tangible trace of a lost era.”

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