Meanings
nounfactness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe 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 - uncountableThe 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
From fact + -ness. Piecewise doublet of featness.
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