The question is where are facts. I think facts is all around us, whether it is in the books, news, internet, and so on. There are so many facts in these areas that it is written or recorded. I think people made up the facts in their observation. They see what they see as well as what they hear. This allows the people to record the facts and present it to the world. The facts are true since they have seen and heard the facts. Also sometimes, the facts are not true, it could be false. Someone may think a certain fact is false because someone presented it wrong. In my opinion, there could be a true fact or a false fact, depends on how it is presented. Sometimes facts are given right to us. For example, the computer is a mac. The computer is right in front of me and I could see that it is a mac. It had the apple logo that makes it different from the rest of the computers.
Another question is what is the relationship of perception to facts. That is a hard question to answer to me because I do not know what is perception and its meaning. I think perception means an insight or intuition. (At least that is what it said in the dictionary.) The relationship between perception and facts is perception is an instint in our mind that tells us what is the right thing to do. Our instints can be right depends on the situation. For example, there is a fork in the road and do not know where to turn. Your instints tells you to go left and you did go left. It leads you to where you want to be. Sometimes your instints could be wrong (once again it depends on the situation) Your instints tells you to go right, but it is the wrong way and you are lost once more. Facts are straight forward answer that is true. You think the facts are true because it is set in stone. For example, there is milk in the refrigator that is good to drink. You can see it that is true. Sometimes the facts are wrong. When you look at the milk in the refrigator, the exprieration date has expriered. These two has same qualities because they both have a true or false answer.
The last question is what is the relationship of memory to facts. I think memory is something that you can remember what it is. For example, I remember what I ate yesterday and I had a chicken sandwich with potato chips and juice. The facts here is symbols: the chicken sandwich, potato chips, and juice. That is a fact because I know I had those things. Sometimes memory can decieve us. For example, I thought I put my folder away in my bag, then when I open the bag, it was not there. I looked everywhere for it. Then I saw my folder on my desk.The similairities of memory and fact is both of them has a straight answer to we know. Both of them can decieve us if we don't remember them carefully.
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Okay, here I think your use of the word "fact" is a bit slippery. For the most part you seem to use it to mean some idea about an event rather than the event itself.
So, again, are facts the objects, or are facts the understandings of the objects? Do facts exist outside of ourselves, or are they merely mental and internal?
Perception: By this I mean as much as anything else either 1) the experience of the physical world through the senses, or 2) the interpretation in the mind of sensation. Here, I will use the second meaning. The senses themselves simply exist without meaning, but when the mind interprets the experience of the senses that experience can be placed within categories and becomes comprehensible.
If facts exist outside of ourselves, perception (which occurs within ourselves) must be secondary to facts -- we do not perceive facts directly, but through the senses, or through thought.
If, on the other hand, facts are mental symbols of physical reality rather than physical reality itself, perception can be a direct, primary experience of facts.
The third point relates to memory and facts. What is memory, and how does it work? Many theories exist. Often memory is thought to be a kind of "echo" or reflection, or recording, or events and experiences. Since I can "remember" thoughts, I guess that memory need not only be of sensual (bodily, physical) experiences, but can also be of mental events.
I generally work from the assumption that memory is mental in its nature, rather than strictly physical, but I think a good argument can be made for memory as a physical property as well.
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