factness

English

Etymology

fact +‎ -ness

Noun

factness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being based on facts.
   • 2013, Robert E. Butts, Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays

     This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base.

2. The quality of being a fact.
   • 2003, Lori J. Underwood, Kant's Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Analysis and Critique of Anglo-American Alternatives

     The crucial question, then, is to what extent is the factness of a fact dependent on coherence?