"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." --Aldous Huxley
The concept "fact" is surprisingly elusive. Reality is what it is, and our thought about it conforms more or less well to it. I suppose that is what is meant by a "fact," that is, what our mind judges this bit if reality to be. But intellectual honesty requires us to recognize that some time in the future we may learn more about this bit of reality and realize that we were wrong, and what we called a fact was in fact a mistake.
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