Can Facts Be True Essay

The key terms that should be identified from the prescribed title are ‘facts’ and ‘experts’. The key term fact can be defined as something that is known or proved to true meaning. Facts are verified through a mutual agreement of experts. Facts are used as guidelines for non-experts. They support our argument, ideas and opinions on specific matters. Although a fact may be regarded as a fact, there is no way to tell whether a fact is right or wrong. Thus, I ask the question “How can facts be verified of being true?”.
The first Area of Knowledge which I will be looking at is Natural Sciences. In Natural Sciences a fact is a careful and repeatable observation, often called empirical evidence. Facts in Natural Sciences are often regarded as being true as they are thought to have been proven by scientists. Facts are the building blocks to scientific theories, which many then interpret as being the same as facts. Despite …show more content…
For example, I make a comparison between two football players, player A and player B. Between the 2 players I idolize only of them, player A. At the same time only one of the player is better than the other, which in this case is player B. Despite being biased towards player A, my personal knowledge says that I believe that player A is better player between the 2, as my emotions have appealed towards player A. However, looking at shared knowledge, in this case statistics, statistics would tell me that player B is the better player between the 2 as player B is statistically better than player A. Thus, proving me wrong that the player which I idolize, player A, is in fact worse than player B. In conclusion for this counterclaim, to an extent emotions can be a means for an individual to reach a conclusion, however, at the same time it isn’t reliable as emotions tend to ignore the facts which disprove the beliefs which an individual