{
  "id": "fact.truth",
  "term": "fact",
  "sense": "truth",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "fact",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is real and true",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "real.actual",
      "true.accurate"
    ],
    "interaction": "when something is both real and true it exists as a fact",
    "novel_properties": [
      "objective truth",
      "verifiable reality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 7.66 km/s, requiring periodic reboosts to counter atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census recorded 331.4 million residents, a figure verified through cross-agency data matching.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Water boils at 100°C at sea level, a physical constant confirmed by repeated laboratory measurements worldwide.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "real.actual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "actually.real",
    "believe.cognitive"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "fact",
    "facts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fact.truth"
}