Ideofactuality

The condition or quality of a discourse, institution, or society in which ideofacts are routinely mistaken for objective facts, and ideological assumptions are treated as the ground of reality itself. In a state of ideofactuality, people genuinely believe they are being pragmatic or evidence‑based, while actually reinforcing a particular worldview. It describes the air that ideologies breathe: invisible, pervasive, and self‑validating. Ideofactuality explains why opposing camps can look at the same data and see completely different “facts”—they are operating within different ideofactual frameworks.

Example: “The ideofactuality of mainstream economics meant that phrases like ‘rational actor’ and ‘market equilibrium’ were treated as physical laws, not useful fictions.”

Ideofactuality by Abzugal April 16, 2026