fact (redirected from in point of fact)

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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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).".