It is in fact that you did post this thread about facts so it is true.

Novel wrote

Vampiric wrote If you stab yourself in the neck with a sharp knife you will bleed.
Fact.

And gravity isn't a theory it's a reality, and the name that was given to how things act within our atmosphere; what goes up will come down unless suspended by something or in flight.

A fact when referring to how something acts means it cannot act in any other way than we see it act daily.
You cannot prove that it is impossible for gravity to act differently in some way.

Also, there is the possibility that you won't bleed if you stab yourself in the neck.
It is incredibly unlikely, but if it were a fact it would be impossible, which, as far as we know, it isn't, meaning it isn't a fact.

We;; we've lived around gravity everyday for millions of years. If there was any other way it acted that we didn;t know about, we'd have found it by now.

And no, if you are living, and get stabbed in the neck, you WILL bleed.
That is a fact

How about this one, if you shave the hair off your head with a grade 2, your hair will be shorter than it was before.

never get into a word with Novel he will rip you open

FACT!

Vampiric wrote

Novel wrote

Vampiric wrote If you stab yourself in the neck with a sharp knife you will bleed.
Fact.

And gravity isn't a theory it's a reality, and the name that was given to how things act within our atmosphere; what goes up will come down unless suspended by something or in flight.

A fact when referring to how something acts means it cannot act in any other way than we see it act daily.
You cannot prove that it is impossible for gravity to act differently in some way.

Also, there is the possibility that you won't bleed if you stab yourself in the neck.
It is incredibly unlikely, but if it were a fact it would be impossible, which, as far as we know, it isn't, meaning it isn't a fact.

We;; we've lived around gravity everyday for millions of years. If there was any other way it acted that we didn;t know about, we'd have found it by now.

And no, if you are living, and get stabbed in the neck, you WILL bleed.
That is a fact

How about this one, if you shave the hair off your head with a grade 2, your hair will be shorter than it was before.

Of course you will bleed, but there's a chance that you won't, making it a theory.

'If you shave your head with a grade 2' cannot relate to facts because it is being influenced by a conscious being, there is a word for it but it escapes my lexicon at the moment.

I believe there are some facts, but not as many as we like to think there are.

Ever wrote It is in fact that you did post this thread about facts so it is true.

That is in the past, I said futuristic facts.
Things that can only be deemed facts if we are absolutely certain that they will continue to occur.

Snorting coke will have you end up in jail, fact.

Even ask Charlie Sheen on that one!

Novel wrote

Ever wrote It is in fact that you did post this thread about facts so it is true.

That is in the past, I said futuristic facts.
Things that can only be deemed facts if we are absolutely certain that they will continue to occur.

Well my birthday is in September, it is in Fact that come September I will have another birthday.

Ever wrote

Novel wrote

Ever wrote It is in fact that you did post this thread about facts so it is true.

That is in the past, I said futuristic facts.
Things that can only be deemed facts if we are absolutely certain that they will continue to occur.

Well my birthday is in September, it is in Fact that come September I will have another birthday.

Unless you die before then.
Also, that's the same as 'If you shave your head with a grade 2.'

Ever wrote

Novel wrote

Ever wrote It is in fact that you did post this thread about facts so it is true.

That is in the past, I said futuristic facts.
Things that can only be deemed facts if we are absolutely certain that they will continue to occur.

Well my birthday is in September, it is in Fact that come September I will have another birthday.

But you aren't 100% that September, will come...

It's just very likely that it will...

Novel wrote When looking at the semantics of the word 'Fact' and applying it to the probabilities of things occurring in the Universe, it becomes apparent that in a futuristic sense, nothing can be said to be 'fact'.

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Facts are absolutes, something that is 100%, but can we really say with certainty that anything is absolute?
For instance, Gravity is simply a theory, now a theory is something that has held up against scientific scrutiny for decades and continues to do so, but it is still not recognized as 'Fact', there is the possibility, however minute, that you could step outside and float off the planet.
There is the possibility that everything could happen differently than we would say is the factual way that it should act under the laws of physics.

Facts also violate Occam's razor, but to say this is a contradiction as you would have to take Occam's razor as a factual basis for the argument.

In short, do facts exist?

Dude gravity is fact... Anything thats big enough has gravity and since the earth has a strong atmosphere with iron core we cannot just float away, now they are doing studies with anti matter to try and make anti gravitational real but that will take some time