单词 | super-fact |
释义 | super-factn. A fact that surpasses all others in truth, significance, etc.; (also) a fact which is above and beyond, or incorporates and explains, all others. ΚΠ 1911 Everybody's Mag. Feb. 209/2 Certainly, however, in the lands and ages back into which my studies took me, I found a perpetual pursuit of the super-facts of life. 1919 S. C. Carpenter Christianity acc. St. Luke ii. vi. 82 They cannot survey all the facts, because there is one leading fact, the superfact, which they have passed over. 1984 D. Cupitt Sea of Faith (1988) 241 Philosophy is not a supersedence that finds out superfacts beyond the reach of other sciences: it is essentially a quest for understanding of things that are already before us. 2008 J. A. Moon Crit. Thinking 221 Teachers..may not agree with each other. When alternative theories are introduced there is a tendency to present them as ‘something that you need to know’ (i.e. as a ‘super-fact’) rather than as a real uncertainty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1911 |
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