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A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance. [1] Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement by experiments or other means. For example, "This sentence contains words."
Distinguishing fact from opinion is that facts are verifiable, i.e. can be agreed to by the consensus of experts. An example is: "United States of America was involved in the Vietnam War," versus "United States of America was right to get involved in the Vietnam War".
Explanation and example [ edit ] The dictionary definition of a fact is: 'Knowledge or information based on real occurrences', but for the purpose of editing, until one encounters a conflict one can define a fact as: "A statement that the editor considers to be true".
She and Muir fact-checked Trump five times without ever fact checking Harris, even though Harris made a number of provocative factual statements arguably worthy of fact-checking. For example ...
Story at a glance Knowing the difference between fact and opinion seems simple, but respondents in a survey published earlier this month were largely unable to correctly identify either. Two ...
The issue is not fact-checking, but the failure to do so equally and accurately. ABC actually disseminated false information under the mantle of fact-checking, and that’s a real problem.
Declarative knowledge can be expressed using declarative sentences stored in books. Declarative knowledge is an awareness of facts that can be expressed using declarative sentences. It is also called theoretical knowledge, descriptive knowledge, propositional knowledge, and knowledge-that. It is not restricted to one specific use or purpose and ...
More difficult examples: Abortion is wrong – opinion, not a fact. The pro-life movement holds that abortion is wrong, or occasionally that it is only justified in certain special cases – fact, not an opinion. God/spiritual energy/[insert your pet concept here] does/does not exist. – opinion, not a fact.