Mythology of Blue: A fact comes from the Latin word factum — literally — “a thing done” —...

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A fact comes from the Latin word factum — literally — “a thing done” — a neuter past participle construction that suggests a fact is merely something upon which action has happened. It’s not even a word that can do its own work. From the same Latin root for fact we get the words “artifice,”…