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Yes, Merriam Webster's defintions really are quite different then the
American Heritage. Interesting. I wonder now about the OED, the
mother-of-all-dictionaries.
Lawrence
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>
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 04:26 , Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
>
> > But my dictionary suggests that
> > Grant's usage may be more correct.
>
> Strange and ineffectual dictionary....
>
> The web's Merriam Webster yields the following- number's 3 through 5 are
> relevant, the others being obsolete and based upon the latin original,
> 'a thing made' which, in ye olde cosmology, pertained to God and His
> Creation more than to man and his.
>
> I would declare the 'the quality of being actual' totally eliminates
> 'concept' as being in any way a fact. QED.
>
> Although it could said to be factual that people have concepts, about
> all kinds of things, even about facts.
>
> - Wade
>
> ****
>
> Main Entry: fact
> Pronunciation: 'fakt
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Latin factum, from neuter of factus, past participle of facere
> Date: 15th century
> 1 : a thing done: as a obsolete : FEAT b : CRIME <accessory after the
> fact> c archaic : ACTION
> 2 archaic : PERFORMANCE, DOING
> 3 : the quality of being actual : ACTUALITY <a question of fact hinges
> on evidence>
> 4 a : something that has actual existence <space exploration is now a
> fact> b : an actual occurrence <prove the fact of damage>
> 5 : a piece of information presented as having objective reality
> - in fact : in truth
>
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