Are Known Without Being Taught

Exist Only As Records

Go Without Saying

Ring True

Sit Wrong

fact

Cockney Rhyming Slang

Ludwig Wittgenstein

data

editing

academic journal

academic writing

decisiveness

one-liner

argument

confucius say

fake news

Facebook

stupidity

is a banal thing which, if we let it, demands of us that we strive to discover which specific and perhaps original problem is connected with it.

Everybody is aware of such banal facts. But the fact that they're banal does not mean they don't exist. What we have to do with banal facts is to discover-- or try to discover-- which specific and perhaps original problem is connected with them' (Foucault 1982:779)

is a construction constructed such that when it is constructed successfully it appears to be unconstructed and participants are 'convinced' that they have not been convinced'.

The result of the construction of a fact is that it appears unconstructed by anyone... the result of rhetorical persuasion in the agonistic field is that participants are convinced that they have not been convinced... the result of materialisation is that people can swear that material considerations are only minor components of the 'thought process.' The result of the investments of credibility is that the participants can claim that economics and beliefs are in no way related to the solidity of science... as to the circumstances, they simply vanish from accounts, being better left to political analysis than to an appreciation of the hard and solid world of facts!' (latour 240').

Chemistry

is a fantasy. There are only interpretations.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

interpretation

is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe (guilty, until found effective).

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. (Felix Cohen)

theory

is a verisimilar representation based on consensus.

But even for Hume, facts, unless of the most rudimentary physical or historical kinds, are verisimilar representations based on consensus. '

is, according to its etymology, 'to make' or 'to do'. A thing made exist until it decays or is destroyed. A thing done has no existence what it is done.

fact and fiction are old acquaintances. . . .Fact comes from facere-- to make or do. Fiction comes from fingere-- to make or shape. . . .But in what sense do things done or things made partake of truth or reality' A thing done has no real existence once it has been done. A thing made, on the other hand, exist until it decays or is destroyed. Fact, finally, has no real existence, while fiction may last for centuries' (Scholes 1968: 2)

is always to be loved... not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present. Simone Weil

fact, n.All

fact