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fact 1. Law an actual event, happening, etc., as distinguished from its legal consequences. Questions of fact are decided by the jury, questions of law by the court or judge 2. Philosophy a proposition that may be either true or false, as contrasted with an evaluative statement 3. after (or before) the fact Criminal law after (or before) the commission of the offence
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Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. Moreover, Ptolemaic astronomy--regardless of its factuality or error--always concerns itself with the material world of bodies, while the heavens spoken of in the Qur'an pertain to all the levels and states of being, physical as well as metaphysical. gay: Miller and screenwriter Dan Futterman work from the opposites reflected in Capote's 1966 masterpiece of narrative journalism, In Cold Blood, whose terse factuality belied its author's flamboyance. |
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