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Facts, philosophy: facts are that which corresponds to a true statement or - according to some authors - is identical with a true statement. Problems result from possible multiple counting of objects, e.g. when it is spoken of a situation and additionally by the fact that this situation exists. Therefore, some authors consider the assumption of facts as something superfluous. See also truths of reason, factual truths, facts, truth, statements, knowledge, certainty, thought objects.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Hartry Field on Facts - Dictionary of Arguments

II 126
Inflationism/Field: Inflationism proceeds from facts (unlike the deflationism).
>Inflationism
, >Deflationism.
Especially facts about the use of a language.
FieldVs: what kind of facts are this supposed to be?
Deflationism: the homophony condition is sufficient to rule out the fact that we do not use a language with deviating reference - there are no other facts. ((s) Homophony: "Snow is white" is true "iff snow is white; the metalanguage conains the object language.)
>Homophony.
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I 183
Fact/Nonfactualism/Field: E.g. relativistic mass or Eigen-mass in the special relativity theory: no fact decides which hypothesis is to be assumed.
>Nonfactualism, >Relativity theory.
The laws are, however, in some cases easier formulated, depending on the choice.
>Natural laws.
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II 224
Fact/discourse without facts/Nonfactualism/Field: 1. Questions of vagueness (Sorites): E.g. there is no fact, on which "bald" accurately refers
2. Assessment questions/Morality/Ethics
3. sentences with indicators/index words
4. subjunctive conditionals/contrafactual conditionals.
>Discourse, >Discourse theory.
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II 265
"No fact"/Nonfactualism/Field: in pure mathematics, the problem of finding facts about our use of concepts is insoluble.
>Mathematics, >Mathematical entities.
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III 362
Fact/Nonfactualism/Field: it is clear that there is no fact about whether Zermelo's or von Neumann's approach "presents" the things "correctly", there is no fact which decides whether numbers are sets.
>Correctnes, >Representation (Presentation).
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II 373
Belief/Justification/Field: It is pointless to ask whether logical beliefs are dependent on logical facts.
>Justification.
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II 381
Fact/Conditions/Field: instead of a fact there may be e.g. a condition. - E.g. preservation of truth.
>Conditions.
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III 50
Geometry/real facts/Field: (via Euclidean space) are about betweenness and congruence - as in the axioms of Hilbert.
>Ontology, >Axioms, cf. >Second order logic.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Field I
H. Field
Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989

Field II
H. Field
Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001

Field III
H. Field
Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980

Field IV
Hartry Field
"Realism and Relativism", The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1982), pp. 553-67
In
Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994


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