facthood

English

Etymology

fact +‎ -hood

Noun

facthood (usually uncountable, plural facthoods)

1. The quality of being factual; factuality.
   • 1999, Dan Bar-On, The Indescribable and the Undiscussable, page 155:

     Once we have captured its impact within our words and feelings, these facts may not differ in their "facthood" from other, discussable facts.

   • 2000, Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, page 177:

     There are other evolutionary hypotheses that have not yet garnered sufficient evidence and whose "facthood" is still in question, especially ones having to do with particular pathways of descent or with the relative importance of natural selection versus drift, for example, as the cause of some particular biological feature.

   • 2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise:

     The popular press is awash in facthoods. Celebrity sleaze, even of a literary bent, is apparently more interesting and saleable than accomplishment.

   • 2011, John Greco, The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism, page 186:

     The test is this: formulate schemata with regard to truth, facthood, and representation of the same logical form. Then see whether their substitution instances are at least logically equivalent.