Who decides what is a "fact"? There are many realities. Each with facts. Each with falsehoods. A fact in one reality may be a falsehood in another. All things are true. All things are false. Meditate on this and know.
Premises 3 and 4 are circular. They state exactly what the question is asking. To cite as in example a very shameful piece of US history. There was a time when it was a true piece of information, an indisputable case that some people were so inferior that their enslavement was permissible and just. Neither is the actuality, or so one would hope we now see.
"Premises 3 and 4 are circular." ? I don't see it. Definitions of the word fact, I found in several dictionaries. The " true piece of information" in your example is an opinion. "enslavement was permissible and just", by whom? That's an interpretation of the fact that there were slaves. Whoever thought it permissible, it was just, their opinion.
Yes, the definition of "fact" citied is correct. To my example, people holding slaves in the US would have held it to be a fact the Africans were an inferior race suited, even created to be slaves. Thankfully few would hold so today. My point is that what is accepted as a "fact" can change as society and knowledge change. There are facts the remain fact, recognized or not, e.g. the Sun is the center of our solar system. History is replete with ideas once held to be "facts" later to be disproven. One suspects there are facts we hold today that may well be overturned in the future.
Facts matter; facts can stand on their own merits, but it is opinion of facts that causes disputes. You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
It is (in fact) our quest of facts that raised our kind from our primitive ancestors.
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Some of the are David but most of them are Dave. They all have their own hands and they come from different moms.
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"They still seem matter to in Japan." ... more than half of Japanese households still have fax machines and businesses say they are a "required communication tool."
I never quite figured that out. Most places, if I post facts I get called a moron. Here, if I post facts I get called confrontational. You might have noticed that I tend to post a lot of pictures of animals. That's why.
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