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FACT

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1.FACT - Fully Automated Compiling Technique
2.(artificial intelligence, programming)fact - The kind of clause used in logic programming which has no subgoals and so is always true (always succeeds). E.g.

wet(water). male(denis).

This is in contrast to a rule which only succeeds if all its subgoals do. Rules usually contain logic variables, facts rarely do, except for oddities like "equal(X,X).".


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Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
If, therefore, the re-examination of a fact once determined by a jury, should in any case be admitted under the proposed Constitution, it may be so regulated as to be done by a second jury, either by remanding the cause to the court below for a second trial of the fact, or by directing an issue immediately out of the Supreme Court.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
The disappointment was made all the more severe by reason of the fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from school mornings and afternoons.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
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