factualismn.
/ˈfaktʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfaktʃᵿlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfaktʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfæk(t)ʃ(əw)əˌlɪzəm/ Philosophy.
Any theory that treats facts as being of prime importance, originally esp. in moral matters; the theory that moral conclusions can be drawn from factual data alone. Also: gen. a predominant concern with facts.
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factualism1911
1911 Harvard Theol. Rev. 4 235 For naturalism or factualism, facts are just what they are experienced as being, and nothing more.
1946 R. Wellek in W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. 68 A false and pernicious ‘historicism’ is frequently connected with ‘factualism’.
1961 J. B. Wilson Reason & Morals ii. 42 The contrast between Moralism and Factualism seems to take the form of a conflict.
1984 L. Lutwack Role of Place in Lit. i. 7 It [sc. Romantic poetry] lends itself..by adding to the factualism of science an emotional identification with places and things.
2011 A. Beattie Mrs. Nixon 75 Our American forebears congratulated themselves from the very beginning for their nuts-and-bolts factualism, their rejection of fantasy, illusion, and fiction as unmanly and ‘just made up’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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