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Fact: An accurate piece of information, i.e. embedded in a minimum of assumptions, which are clearly stated. [e]

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Parent topics

  • Information [r]: Knowledge of specific events or situations that has been gathered or received by communication; intelligence or news. [e]
  • Knowledge [r]: On one common account by philosophers, justified, true belief; often used in a looser way by everyone else to mean any truth or belief, and also a whole body of truth or a whole system of belief. [e]

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  • Assumption [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Axiom [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Truth [r]: The accuracy or factuality of a statement; has been explained by philosophers as correspondence to reality, coherence with a body of thought, and in several other ways; also (with a capital "T"), deep, important wisdom. [e]
  • Data [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Data (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Context [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Context (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.