different between fact vs explicitation

English

Etymology

From Latin factum (“a deed, act, exploit; in Medieval Latin also state, condition, circumstance”), neuter of factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faci? (“do, make”). Doublet of feat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

fact (countable and uncountable, plural facts)

1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
2. Something which is real.

   Gravity is a fact, not a theory.

3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.

4. An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.

5. Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.

6. (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
7. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.
8. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...].

9. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.

Antonyms

• (Something actual): fiction

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Translations

See also

• value
• opinion
• belief

References

• fact at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "Conway: 'Alternative Facts'" Merriam-Webster's Trend Watch Merriam-Webster. 2017.

Interjection

fact

1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

Anagrams

• acft

English

Etymology

explicit +? -ation

Noun

explicitation (plural explicitations)

1. (rare, possibly nonstandard) The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
   • 1927, Alfred H. Lloyd, "Also the Emergence of Matter," Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 12, p. 326:

     [N]ot only are the two factors of reality [i.e., objective and subjective] exposures or explicitations of each other, each being always the other's inside made outside, implicit made explicit, but also in our thought of them as incidents of one process or activity it can certainly be no more true that they influence each other or act causally on each other or "interact," than that they are constantly realizing each other.

   • 1962, Helmut Fleischer, "The Materiality of Matter," Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 15:

     The further attributes of matter—e.g. motion, space, time, substantiality, and reflection—appear merely as explicitations and concretizations of the fundamental thesis on the priority of matter over consciousness.

   • 1988, P. A. Kirschner and M. A. M. Meester, "The laboratory in higher science education," Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 81:

     This article is primarily directed at a clarification and explicitation of objectives and of their implementation in laboratory work at the Dutch Open University.

   • 2007, R. Lanier Anderson, "Comments on Wayne Martin, Theories of Judgment," Philosophical Studies, vol. 137, no. 1, p. 105:

     Further, while Frege's judgment stroke has the merit of making this distinction fully explicit, and thereby available to do logical work, there are still, as Martin recognizes, real limits on explicitation here—at least within a Fregean context.

   • 2009, G. Aloysius, "Demystifying Modernity: Notes Not so Tentative," Social Scientist, vol. 37, no. 9/10, p. 54:

     The entire range of political theory for example is concerned with explicitation of this egalitarianism through the agency of the State.

   • 2009, Chris Ackerley, "Book Review: Beckett at 100: Revolving It All" (eds. Linda Ben Zvi and Angela Moorjani, Oxford, 2008), The Journal of British Studies, vol. 48, no. 2, p. 550:

     Beckett would have hated the fuss: too big, too noisy, too much explicitation; the City of the Plain welcoming back its prodigal son whose image (banners, pictures, books) was everywhere.

Usage notes

• Usage is confined almost entirely to academic journals, and to the field of translation studies.

Related terms

• explicitness