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"People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made."
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"Never assume that any fact is useless until it is so proven."
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A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance, or an occurrence in the real world. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by careful, repeatable observation or measurement by experiments or other means. After accounts of knowledge of facts such as that in 2002 by epistemologist Angelika Kratzer being applied to Gettier problems, a
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"We can define a fact as an observation backed up by such a preponderance of evidence that no useful purpose would be served by doubting it."
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"I have no need for the boundless sky; the moon and stars are beyond my grasp. I prefer to exist in the real world, for dreams alone cannot sustain me."
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"Every moment age is creeping up stealthily, but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering around."
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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."
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"Life is withering away like a candle that is melting down."
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