A little question for everyone?

Question

Is there anything that is a "fact" that is unproveable?

If so, can you name one?

Just to be clear, this is not about theories.... just the facts... lol

Gravity is proven...

Sips: I hadn't heard that one before! Link please?

*** Thank-you!

Answer 1

Absolute zero temperature is known to be 0 K (–273.15 °C)

It has never been reached, ergo unproven.

But it is a fact none the less.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

Answer 2

Well there is nothing that is 100% proven. Not even the most concrete fact can be absolutely proven. I can not prove that the color white I see is the white you see. i can not prove that my whole life is not a dream. I can not prove anything, this is why socrates said that you can't know anything. However, if one is to live a liveable life, we must believe in reason, and realize that for all extensive purposes somethings are facts beyond a reasonable doubt. We must evaluate by the evidence we have, and excercise reasonable faith. However, many disagree about what reasonable faith produces. For example, people may think that I did not make a reasonable leap of faith by choosing Christ. I couldn't disagree more, but that is not the question.

Answer 3

I'll have to get "complicated" on this one.
First of all, you have to define "fact". Second, you have to define "proof". Some of the answers seem to imply that it is not a fact until proved. That is not what your question implies. One answer to your question would be something is not a fact unless provable. Very different statement, obviously.
No we need to define "provable". If, for instance, "proof" means empirical proof, then loads of facts are unprovable according to the spell check, this is the correct spelling, by the way), because we cannot reproduce them in laboratory conditions. For instance, no historical fact is provable.
If, however, we accept proof on the same basis that historians do, then I would have no difficulty in considering that the existence of God is provable (as we are in the religion and spirituality section, I assume this is part of your question).
Once I consider God to be "prooved" through the evidence of creation, then reason leads me to believe a whole lot of things that I consider to be facts, but that I could not necessarily prove to another person's satisfaction.
These things are not proved but I believe will eventually be, and thus are "provable".
Then again, I cannot prove to you that I have a headache, but it is fact.
So, basically, I think the answer is a resoundingly weak "yes".
EDIT:
I agree with Jim Pettis that the first answer is the best if you are looking for a dictionary definition, but isn't mine more interesting - or at least more long-winded? useful if you are reading it while trying to get to sleep! LOL

Answer 4

1. If you are in a car accident, the law changes in such a way as to make it your fault. Similar phenomena have been observed with tax laws and campaign finance regulations.

2. In conducting a scientific experiment, it is frequently observed that the closer one gets to the final result, the more difficult it becomes to reproduce the original observation.

3. The more potentially embarrassing your e-mail message, the greater the likelihood that it will be delivered to the wrong recipient.

4. Failure to perform backups of one’s computer data produces a statistically-significant increase in the likelihood of a hard disk crash (The reference for this was accidentally erased).

Just a few.

Answer 5

Don't separate theories from facts. Your teachers want to say that the facts of reality can't coincide with an ideal 'theory'. Then they get to pull the wool over your eyes regarding global warming, socialism, and religion. There is no separation of the actual and the theoretical when you understand the law of identity.

Answer 6

Gravity is not a theory, but rather a law which has been proven. (Ever here of "The Law of Gravity"?)

Evolution is a theory, not a law or a fact, because it has not been proven.

1st answer was the best answer.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 7

absolutely not..... the truth and the facts should be exactly the same thing..... truth leaves a physical imprint ( physical evidence) where ever it occurs.... for example the history of christianity:

It's origins is in fact the Roman Catholic Church... any claims before hand is called speculation because never has any physical evidence been uncovered and they've been looking for centuries... grey areas also called speculation deemed manufactured evidence....
Now looking at church teachings we have "buzz words" god, good, evil, the devil, sin, these are words used by the catholic church to continue it's rise in power...these words and concepts also originate in the church and have no true meaning outside the church..... These words also have no evidence outside the church. Lets go back to the evidence and examine the concepts of good and evil... as defined by the church who has used them for so long to keep humans bound to it.... they use good as a reference to god another church word... and evil which is coincidentally against the church.(ex: heretics and witches ,both church words, reflecting nothing more than opposers or challengers to the church's power or teachings)... but the concept of good and evil takes on a larger meaning when measure beyond church theology , when measured through life and nature WE the non church groups see right and wrong... different from good and evil but applying good and evil to the corrected right and wrong we begin to see that good and evil are actually opposite to right and wrong and from there we can see how the church and it's phantom facts have affected life on earth... the church has a history of racism, intimidation,sexism, war, violence, exclusivity, oppression, and condemnation.... looking at influence on earth with their their "self made" purpose of speaking FOR god and how many people follow their example of "god's word" (the first know bible was compiled and introduced by the catholic church... the facts are there) so now the world of religion develops in a pattern that makes the church god, is that what they are telling us we are following? Sin is a word used by the church alone, looking at the evidence (church practice) they are forgiven only through church ritual... it is not that they condemn murder... but they expect to know about it and would protect a murderer, and obviously a pedophile.... what is a hail Mary or an our father (church fairy tales) compared to a prison sentence the criminals deserve.... But the world and many of it's laws are based on church (or roman ) civilization. The human population follows blindly much of what has been introduced by this one organization one church and has yet to condemn it or even seek out the evidence of discrediting it to it's deserving end. The facts.... the evidence shows that the church is corrupt and has the capacity of corrupting and annihilating civilizations of the earth. In using it's own word, the evidence and facts prove that the church is very very EVIL.

Answer 8

By definition, no. It is not possible for something to be a 'fact' and be unprovable.

With that being said, it possible to have something stated as fact that is not true and unprovable.

Ex: Pick your favorite diety. Adherents will claim that the 'facts' prove that their version of a diety is the right version.

Answer 9

Not by definition. But then the question would be whether facts are a subset of truth; that is, whether something be true without being a fact or being provable.

Answer 10

The existance of GOD is a fact but can not be proven because we are mortals who have difficulty understanding our own existance so why try to understand the infinite.
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