hard facts
Reliable, verifiable information
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cold hard facts
Facts without anything added to make them more pleasant or interesting.
Facts that are devoid of any emotions, the blatant irreversible truth.
Facts that are devoid of any emotions, the blatant irreversible truth.
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bucking the hard facts
A saying coined by Paul G. Hewitt, author of Conceptual Physics, which describes the disregard of an established law or fact.
bucking the hard facts by RMKU November 21, 2013
Hard Problem of Fact
The dilemma that facts are not raw, uninterpreted bits of the world, but are always "theory-laden." What counts as a fact depends on the conceptual framework you're using. A fact is a statement about the world that we agree is incontrovertible within a given paradigm. The hard problem is that when paradigms shift (e.g., from Newtonian to Einsteinian physics), old facts can become false or meaningless. This means facts are not eternal building blocks of knowledge, but temporary settlements in an ongoing negotiation between observation and interpretation.
Example: For centuries, "The Sun revolves around the Earth" was a brute fact, confirmed by daily observation. The shift to heliocentrism didn't change the raw data (the sun's motion in the sky), it changed the interpretive framework. The "fact" became "The Earth rotates, creating the illusion of solar motion." The hard problem: There is no neutral observation language. What you call a fact reveals your theoretical commitments. A fact is like a piece in a puzzle—it only has a definite shape and place relative to the picture you're trying to build. Hard Problem of Fact.
Hard Problem of Fact by Enkigal January 24, 2026
Figuring out the fact that the character limit is extremely long on Urban Dictionary so you use whatever you can to the point where it gets hard to read or maybe even off screen
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#2: "...What?"
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