Facthood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Facthood is a noun meaning The quality of being factual; factuality.
Meaning
The quality of being factual; factuality.
Example Sentences
Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts.
The popular press is awash in facthoods. Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.
The test is this: formulate schemata with regard to truth, facthood, and representation of the same logical form. Then see whether their substitution instances are at least logically equivalent.
There are other evolutionary hypotheses that have not yet garnered sufficient evidence and whose "facthood" is still in question, especially ones having to do with particular pathways of descent or with the relative importance of natural selection versus drift, for example, as the cause of some particular biological feature.
Word Forms
- facthoods
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include factuality, factitude, factness, facticity, factiveness, actuality.
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