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If you had lived in Happy Valley for seventeen years, you too would be entitled to call it a fact.
Karr's innocence in the Ramsey case was a fact before the Boulder Buffoons discovered it.
:) M

point 1: feeling entitled to label an supported supposition a fact doesn't make it so.

The Cartesian distinction between a fact and an opinion is dogma, not fact. All expressions of fact are tainted with opinion; many opinions are founded firmly and unshakably on facts. And let me interrupt this quibble to point out that most of us do not take the phrase, "Fact is" literally. But it the Cartesian world, literally is all you got.

Quote - point 2 : the second element has what relevance?

If I had said, "Karr is innocent" three days ago, that would have been sniffed at as "one person's opinion." And so it is. It also turned out to be a fact. Fancy that. Those of us who were not surprised must have luckier opinions than others. Our fact is independent of whether your opinion agrees with it.

M