If i asked a question like, Golden retrievers are the most beautiful dogs in the world and thats a FACT?

Question

Would my statement indeed be a fact, what if I throw out some standard of pure beauty that was absolute and objective according to the greeks, would it make my statement a Fact,

Please if nothing else define for me what a Fact is?

I know what the grammatical definition is but what do the majority of people believe constitutes a FACT

And no, if you type "my question is confusing and that’s a fact" wont when best answer,

Answer 1

If you or a group can "empirically verify" a statement, then we can accept that statement as "fact." For example, my car is white. If you and your friends see my car and you see white, then we can agree my car is white and that is a fact.

Now, you can only easily verify statements of concrete reality, such as objects you can see and feel. Cars. Roses. Dogs and their colors. When you get into the realm of functional reality or abstract statements, you cannot easily claim them as fact.

Beauty is an abstract construct. People do not agree what beauty is and there is no "concrete definition." Thus it is very difficult to verify.

An apple is red. I love Sue. The first, a concrete statement is easy to verify. The second is abstract and more difficult to verify. You comment about beauty is abstract and there will be disagreement. So we call that an opinion.

Whew. Did that help?
Dr. J

Answer 2

this is an opinion. a fact is a statement that can be proven true by some an official, un-biased source (such as an encyclopedia), and it is not based soley on the thoughts of one person. a poll is official, but it is based on the thoughts of many people. saying "most people think golden retrievers are the most beautiful dogs" would be a fact because your poll could prove it (if you surveyed a large and diverse group of people). however, saying "golden retrievers are the most beautiful dogs" is an opinion because it can't be backed up by an official source and is based merely on the thoughts of one person.

"what if I throw out some standard of pure beauty that was absolute and objective according to the greeks"

i would say no, because the greeks determined things through arguing, and never actually proved anything through science. so in conclusion, a fact is basically anything that can be proven.

Answer 3

A fact is a truth that is free of opinion. A golden retriever is a dog, that is a fact. A golden retriever is the most beautiful dog, is not a fact. Facts transcend language barriers. For example, no mater how you right 2 + 2, it will still equal 4, this is a fact.

Answer 4

A fact is proven datum. If you are a male of the species, that is a fact. Golden Retrievers are dogs, that is fact. That GR's are the most beautiful dogs in the world is an opinion.

Answer 5

It is definitly an opinion. Opinions are things that cannot be proven. You can't prove a Golden Retriever is the most beautiful dog because that is what you think personally. A fact can be proven.

Answer 6

fact: Knowledge or information based on real occurrences:

ie golden retrievers were developed in Britain

Your claim is an opinion

opinion: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

ie golden retrievers are the most beautiful dogs

Answer 7

you didn't ask a question...you made a statement...whether that statement is fact or not is subjective in this case because some people don't like dogs at all...even the gheeks
were not conclusive about the absolute nature of beauty...

Answer 8

a fact is what you believe it to be, so if you think golden retrievers are the most beautiful dogs, that is your fact, and your reality

Answer 9

Fact:
"confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."

Answer 10

it is not a fact it is an opinion. a fact is something that can be proven to be true, an opinion is what you think to be true.