Facts

Facts - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Acquaintance, Announcement, Clue, Communication, Communique, Corpus, Data, Datum, Directory, Dispatch, Documentation, Enlightenment, Evidence, Exhibit, Experience, Expertise, Fact

Fact is the following:

Generally a fact is something that exists or has existed, of evidence.
In philosophy, a fact is a truthmaker.
In science, a fact is data supported by a scientific experiment.
In law, a fact is a statement which is found to be true by a "tryer of fact," sometimes a jury, but often the court (the judge or judges) after hearing evidence.
In computer science a fact is a single data value generated or used by a business process.

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