Michael Potter (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge): 'Facts and Propositions'
Abstract: It is commonly thought that propositions and facts are different sorts of things: propositions are essentially linguistic or thinkable; facts are essentially worldly. Call this the “two sorts” view. A variant of this view holds that in ordinary language the word “fact” is ambiguous, sometimes meaning a worldly fact, as just mentioned, but at other times meaning a true proposition. But two-sortism is wrong: facts are just true propositions. However, it does not follow (or at least not straightforwardly) that facts are not worldly: idealism has been mislocated.
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