It seems plausible that it’s correct to treat a piece of information as approaching very close the fact-ness. If I say that a cup contains an kilogram of water, there’s some sense in which this is not a pure fact, but it seems very close to a pure fact, and although pure-factness about water in this cup may be unattainable, it is not infinitely far away.
There are various different culinary measures called a cup, but if filled with water they all give you between 1⁄5 and 1⁄4 of a kilogram. Actual cups-for-drinking-from can give wildly different amounts but a kilogram would correspond to a litre of water, and vessels that large usually have names other than “cup”.
It seems plausible that it’s correct to treat a piece of information as approaching very close the fact-ness. If I say that a cup contains an kilogram of water, there’s some sense in which this is not a pure fact, but it seems very close to a pure fact, and although pure-factness about water in this cup may be unattainable, it is not infinitely far away.
You must have larger cups than me.
😛 Dangit, my American intuition wasn’t good enough. I was kinda close, only a factor of 2 maybe.
There are various different culinary measures called a cup, but if filled with water they all give you between 1⁄5 and 1⁄4 of a kilogram. Actual cups-for-drinking-from can give wildly different amounts but a kilogram would correspond to a litre of water, and vessels that large usually have names other than “cup”.