The facts about facts

There has been debate for centuries concerning the nature of facts. My preferred account is that facts are what is the case. They are bits of reality. Note that I did not limit facts to physical bits of reality. That would be to assume physicalism. I do not want to make that ontological assumption. Indeed, I am inclined to deny physicalism.

Facts are truth makers. This much I am confident about. Take a proposition, for example, that snow is white. What makes this proposition true? It is the fact that snow is white; it is the bit of reality that is snow’s being white.

We’ve lost ourselves in a sea of claims with no foundation in facts. This fluid picture of reality is the strongest enemy we face.