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18th June 2021, 05:35 AM
FACT. An action; a thing done.
By definition a fact is a verb and not an adjective. Skin color is an adjective.
YOU are not a fact either for that matter.
From Etymology Online:
fact (n.)
1530s, "action, anything done," especially "evil deed," from Latin factum "an event, occurrence, deed, achievement," in Medieval Latin also "state, condition, circumstance," literally "thing done" (source also of Old French fait, Spanish hecho, Italian fatto), noun use of neuter of factus, past participle of facere "to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Main modern sense of "thing known to be true" is from 1630s, from notion of "something that has actually occurred."
Compare feat, which is an earlier adoption of the same word via French. Facts "real state of things (as distinguished from a statement of belief)" is from 1630s. In fact "in reality" is from 1707. Facts of life "harsh realities" is from 1854; euphemistic sense of "human sexual functions" first recorded 1913. Alliterative pairing of facts and figures is from 1727.
Notice that the concept FACT started out as an EVIL DEED. Yet Etymology Online has classified a deed as a NOUN rather than a verb (an action).
Conversion of a verb to a noun is the basis for long (or short) prison sentences. Actions are judged as facts (evil deeds). Facts become nouns and you become the noun attached to the action (should you accept the office).
By definition a fact is a verb and not an adjective. Skin color is an adjective.
YOU are not a fact either for that matter.
From Etymology Online:
fact (n.)
1530s, "action, anything done," especially "evil deed," from Latin factum "an event, occurrence, deed, achievement," in Medieval Latin also "state, condition, circumstance," literally "thing done" (source also of Old French fait, Spanish hecho, Italian fatto), noun use of neuter of factus, past participle of facere "to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Main modern sense of "thing known to be true" is from 1630s, from notion of "something that has actually occurred."
Compare feat, which is an earlier adoption of the same word via French. Facts "real state of things (as distinguished from a statement of belief)" is from 1630s. In fact "in reality" is from 1707. Facts of life "harsh realities" is from 1854; euphemistic sense of "human sexual functions" first recorded 1913. Alliterative pairing of facts and figures is from 1727.
Notice that the concept FACT started out as an EVIL DEED. Yet Etymology Online has classified a deed as a NOUN rather than a verb (an action).
Conversion of a verb to a noun is the basis for long (or short) prison sentences. Actions are judged as facts (evil deeds). Facts become nouns and you become the noun attached to the action (should you accept the office).