What makes a fact a fact?
I think there may be two ways of answering this question. The first would be...that a fact becomes a fact when it is anonymously agreed upon by the general public based on scientific "discovery". Whether or not scientific discovery is valid. The second waqy I would answer this question would be... A fact becomes a fact as soon as the person who is stating a "fact" says "and thats a fact" or "as a matter of fact". I don't really feel that there are true facts. In fact, the word itself just doesn't sound right. So based on that statement I am the speaker and I am stating what I feel is true, in turn creating a fact.
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So, facts are either conventional assignments of meaning, rather than experiences outside of the self (that is, outside of the assigner-of-meaning). It may be, then, that "facts" (conventional assignments of meaning) refer to NOTHING "real", only to perceptions of the mind of the assigner-of-meaning, which could well be wholly fantastical.
You say that you do not believe that "true facts" exist. Okay, what is the "truth" to which "true" refers, or in which quality "true" resides?
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