NIEPODWAŻALNE FAKTY. JAK O NICH MÓWIMY?
Undeniable facts. How we talk about them

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with syntax and semantics of expressions containing the word fakt (a fact). In the first part of her study, the author overviews the most typical contexts in which this word is used and extracts lexical units in which it occurs. The second part is devoted to semantic properties of the extracted units, in particular to features of the expression jest faktem, że_ (it is a fact that_), which should not be identifi ed with the predicate jest prawdą, że _ (it is true that_) in terms of content even though the concept of knowledge plays the central role in both these meaning. In the final part of the paper, a semantic representation of the expression jest faktem, że _ is proposed.

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