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Definition of Scientific fact
1. Noun. An observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and is accepted as true (although its truth is never final).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scientific Fact
Literary usage of Scientific fact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré (1913)
"The Crude Fact and the scientific fact What was most paradoxical in JI. ...
This distinction between the fact in the rough and the scientific fact does not ..."
2. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré, George Bruce Halsted (1913)
"The Crude Fact and the scientific fact What was most paradoxical in M. LeRoy's thesis
was that affirmation that the scientist creates the fact; ..."
3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"Influence of These are the considerations which have scientific fact led men to
the knowledge of the double upon Opinion. motion of the planet we inhabit. ..."
4. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1902)
"Mr. Talmage should remember that a scientific fact does not depend upon the vote
of numbers; — it depends simply upon demonstration; it depends upon ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"ing, it is to be hoped that the attention of chemists will be drawn to the pectic
fermentation, well known doubtless as a scientific fact, but of which no ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"ing, it is to be hoped that the attention of chemists will be drawn to the pel'tie
fermentation, well known doubtless as a scientific fact, but of which no ..."
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