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Full Idea
A fact is a thought that is true.
Gist of Idea
A fact is a thought that is true
Source
Gottlob Frege (The Thought: a Logical Enquiry [1918], p.342(74))
Book Ref
Frege,Gottlob: 'The Frege Reader', ed/tr. Beaney,Michael [Blackwell 1997], p.342
A Reaction
It strikes me as pretty obvious that facts are not thoughts, because they concern the contents of thoughts. You can't discuss facts without the notion of what a thought is 'about'. If I think about my garden, the relevant fact is aspects of my garden.
| 19471 | A fact is a thought that is true [Frege] |
| 22641 | Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James] |
| 5418 | In a world of mere matter there might be 'facts', but no truths [Russell] |
| 13988 | Many sentences do not state facts, but there are no facts which could not be stated [Ryle] |
| 8161 | We know we can state facts, with true statements [Dummett] |
| 19278 | There is no gap between a fact that p, and it is true that p; so we only have the truth-condtions for p [Hale] |