fact /ˈfækt/
 事實,實情,論據


 fact
 事實


 fact
 事實


 Fact n.
 1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]
 A project for the fact and vending
 Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies.   --B. Jonson.
 2. An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
    What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture.   --Evelyn.
    He who most excels in fact of arms.   --Milton.
 3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
 4. The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
    I do not grant the fact.   --De Foe.
    This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true.   --Roger Long.
 Note: ☞ The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with law; as, attorney at law, and attorney in fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between law and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the law.
 Accessary before the fact, or Accessary after the fact. See under Accessary.
 Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration.
 Syn: -- Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.

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 fact
      n 1: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or
           events that have occurred; "first you must collect all
           the facts of the case"
      2: a statement or assertion of verified information about
         something that is the case or has happened; "he supported
         his argument with an impressive array of facts"
      3: an event known to have happened or something known to have
         existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of
         the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
      4: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses
         are not facts"