What is a fact?

Facts were mean to be forgotten, that is why we write them down.

That is a saying of mine that I like to repeat from time to time.

Writing is the act of committing your thoughts, words and actions
to the media of the "memory machine".  That is what I normally call
computers these days, as opposed to a "computational machine".

The act of putting things down in this machine is a commit to memory,
a sign of work and an act of broadcast all in one.

Actually putting anything into this machine is an act of broadcast,
through time and space, if someone chooses to look at sometime in
the future.

What is work?


Defined: work

work
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noun
noun: work; plural noun: works; plural noun: the works

    1.
    activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.
    "he was tired after a day's work"
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    labor

toil
exertion
effort
slog
drudgery
the sweat of one's brow
industry
service
grind
sweat
donkey work
spadework
elbow grease
graft
fag
yakka
travail
moil
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leisure
rest

    mental or physical activity as a means of earning income; employment.
    "I'm still looking for work"
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    employment

job
day job
post
position
situation
means of earning one's living
occupation
profession
career
business
trade
line
vocation
calling

    employ
    the place where one is employed.
    "I was returning home from work on a packed subway"
    the period of time one spends in paid employment.
    "he was going to the theater after work"

2.
a task or tasks to be undertaken; something a person or thing has to do.
"they made sure the work was progressing smoothly"
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tasks
jobs
duties
assignments
commissions
projects
chores

    the materials for a task.
    "she frequently took work home with her"
    informal
    cosmetic plastic surgery.
    "between you and me, I think he's had some work done"
    Theology
    good or moral deeds.
    "the Clapham sect was concerned with works rather than with faith"

3.
something done or made.
"her work hangs in all the main American collections"
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handiwork
doing
act
deed
feat
performance

    the result of the action of a specified person or thing.
    "the bombing had been the work of a German-based cell"
    a literary or musical composition or other piece of fine art.
    "a work of fiction"
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    composition

piece
creation
achievement
accomplishment
work of art
opus
oeuvre
all literary or musical pieces by a particular author, composer, or artist, regarded collectively.
"the works of Schubert fill several feet of shelf space"
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writings
oeuvre
canon

    output
    a piece of embroidery, sewing, or knitting, typically made using a specified stitch or method.
    an architectural or engineering structure such as a bridge or dam.
    the record of the successive calculations made in solving a mathematical problem.
    "show your work on a separate sheet of paper"

4.
British
a place or premises for industrial activity, typically manufacturing.
"he found a job in the ironworks"
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factory
plant
manufacturing complex
mill
foundry
yard
industrial unit
business unit
workshop
shop
5.
the operative part of a clock or other machine.
"she could almost hear the tick of its works"
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mechanism
machinery
workings
working parts
parts
movement
action
innards
insides
6.
Military
a defensive structure.
"just north of the fort were trenches and the freshly reconstructed patriot siege works"
7.
Physics
the exertion of force overcoming resistance or producing molecular change.
8.
informal
everything needed, desired, or expected.
"the heavens put on a show: sheet lightning, hailstones—the works"
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everything
the full treatment
the lot
the whole shooting match
the whole (kit and) caboodle
the whole shebang
the whole nine yards
the full monty

    the whole ball of wax

verb
verb: work; 3rd person present: works; past tense: worked; past participle: worked; past tense: wrought; past participle: wrought; gerund or present participle: working

    1.
    be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.
    "she has been working so hard"
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    toil

labor
exert oneself
slave (away)
plod away
work one's fingers to the bone
work like a Trojan/dog
work day and night
keep at it
slog (away)
beaver away
plug away
peg away
put one's back into something
work one's guts out
work one's socks off
knock oneself out
sweat blood
kill oneself
graft
fag
bullock
drudge
travail
moil
vulgar slang
work one's balls/arse off
work one's ass/butt off
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rest
play

    be employed in a specified occupation or field.
    "he worked as a waiter in a rather shabby restaurant"
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    be employed

have a job
earn one's living
hold down a job
do business

    follow/ply one's trade
    set to or keep at work.
    "Jane is working you too hard"
    solve (a puzzle or mathematical problem).
    "she spent her days working crosswords"
    practice one's occupation or operate in or at (a particular place).
    "I worked a few clubs and so forth"

2.
(of a machine or system) operate or function, especially properly or effectively.
"his cell phone doesn't work unless he goes to a high point"
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function
go
run
operate
perform
be in working order


Defined: fact

noun
noun: fact; plural noun: facts

    a thing that is known or proved to be true.
    "he ignores some historical and economic facts"
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    reality

actuality
certainty
factuality
certitude
truth
naked truth
verity
gospel
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lie
fiction

    information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article.
    "even the most inventive journalism peters out without facts, and in this case there were no facts"