Plato has dealt with both of these already in the analogy of the divided line as dianoia (mathematical reasoning) and noesis (understanding). To Plato, facts ar

Plato has dealt with both of these already in the analogy of the divided line as dianoia (mathematical reasoning) and noesis (understanding). To Plato, facts are likenesses of the truth, just as an imagined object is a likeness of a real object. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy_of_the_divided_line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy_of_the_divided_line