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The age difference between this boy and the mother is 17yrs; now this is what you call a fact.
Blogger KING 2008
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The age difference between this boy and the mother is 17yrs; now this is what you call a fact.
Blogger KING 2008
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There are quite a few very, very intelligent scientists who do not agree with what you call a fact.
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There are quite a few very, very intelligent scientists who do not agree with what you call a fact.
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But we want to be very careful about what we are saying and just give you the information that we know as fact.
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In this context it is interesting to look at the root of the word fact.
Marco J. de Vries - An Existential–Spiritual View of the Nature of Man William Harryman 2009
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From reason and probability, we would with some certainty conclude that the great tumulus of New Grange was the temple of some Irish god; but that it was so, we know as a fact.
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887
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Nameable Things, these or some of them must of course compose the signification of all names; and of these, or some of them, is made up whatever we call a fact.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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Namable Things, these or some of them must of course compose the signification of all names: and of these, or some of them, is made up whatever we call a fact.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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I've been telling everyone in here things I know as fact.
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