Allow me to clarify: facts are meaningless in the literal sense that facts are devoid of meaning without interpretation. When you say facts be confirmed by expe

Allow me to clarify: facts are meaningless in the literal sense that facts are devoid of meaning without interpretation. When you say facts be confirmed by experiments, the very confirmation already presupposes the existence of criteria by which you prove or disprove facts. Those criteria are precisely what constitutes theories. Now back to the original question, it's true you can establish facts through experiments, but since facts are always mediated by theories, it's not very useful to discuss how one deals with purely raw facts and more useful to discuss how one approaches truth from mediated facts. I think OP meant facts in this sense.