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factuality

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the quality of being actual or based on fact

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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. Clifford Geertz

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. Yann Martel

One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows. It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed. Richard Hofstadter

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. E. L. Doctorow

the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination Source: Internet

All Germanic languages besides English have introduced a terminological distinction between truth "fidelity" and truth "factuality". Source: Internet

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