What is a ‘fact’? If we ask, ‘What should count as a fact?’ are we not begging the
question in favour of a view that facts are simply disguised ‘values’? Consider John
Searle’s analysis of facts in The Construction of Social Reality (1995). Do you think
‘social’ and ‘institutional facts’ are rightly called facts? Can we do without facts? [We
Christians? We Canadians? We humans?] This paper needs three additional noninternet, academic sources from books or journal articles.
