Chapter 3 - TFY - Facts Summary

“TFY”: Chapter 3 – Facts – Summary

This chapter on facts is about just that…. Facts! We learn that the definition of a fact is knowing something with certainty through experience, observation, or measurement. A fact can be objectively shown and verified and people agree that it corresponds to reality. You need to learn how to recognize and verify facts based on what was just said. We also need to be able to distinguish facts from fiction. Fiction is something that is made up, for example, a story someone tells that has no truth behind it. You feelings can also be facts, or at least help you to determine what a fact is. You need to be careful though as you need to pay attention to your attitude along with your feeling. Are you being objective or subjective? There can be social pressures that go along with determining facts. We, as humans, sometimes feel the need to get confirmation from someone else in a certain situation. Confirmation on what we think to be true allows us to feel good about the determination we made. Although we might get a contradiction to our determination of fact from another person; this can create conflict for us. I have learned that there is more to a fact than just what we read or learn or even determine a fact ourselves. There is more depth to facts that we need to consider prior to labeling something a fact. Facts need to be able to be verified, have reliability, plausibility and probability.