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When a person, making a statement, clinches it with the customary ‘and that’s a fact,’ he may actually mean ‘and that’s a Truth.’ A fact by itself is a bald and unfruitful symbol, being no more than the statement or designation of an object, but in the conjunction of facts the idea derived from one or more of them is Truth.
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Mcfate, P.A. (1983). Facts. In: McFate, P.A. (eds) Uncollected Prose of James Stephens. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17091-3_17
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