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There are facts. Like: "My laptop will not run indefinitely without power". Right?

• auggierose 6y ago
  Tell that "fact" to a person not speaking English. Or to somebody who has never seen a laptop. Or to somebody, who doesn't know what "power" is. If you interpret "indefinitely" as in "within my lifetime", will that sentence still be true in the future? Once we've stripped the contextual stuff from your sentence, your sentence is a fact in a similar way to "1 = 1" being a fact. These kinds of facts are not that terribly interesting, because they are context-free, and context is usually the entire point of a fact. Oh, and I would argue that your laptop does not run indefinitely without power is a very personal experience, at least for me.