Matter of Fact


A Matter of Fact, in the Humean sense, is the type of knowledge that can be characterised as arising out of one's interaction with and experience in the external world (as compared to a Relation of Ideas). In a Kantian framework, it is equivalent to the synthetic a posteriori.

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See also: Matter of Fact, A posteriori, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Philosophy, Relations of Ideas, Synthetic