The phrase "perceived fact" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that is considered to be a fact based on personal interpretation or belief, rather than objective evidence.
Example: "While many view it as a perceived fact, further research is needed to confirm its validity."
Alternatives: "assumed fact" or "believed fact".
His selection in the original squad over Liam Plunkett still remains a mystery, although the perceived fact that Plunkett does not get any lateral movement is thought not to have helped his cause.
Richards, Brennan and Harlequins were permitted to tell the panel matters of purported fact that they disputed, but by not ordering Williams into the stand, unchallenged speculation, hearsay and allegations have this week turned into perceived fact, such as Richards is a bully.
The enlargement of historical knowledge comes about largely through finding how to use as evidence this or that kind of perceived fact which historians have hitherto thought useless to them' (p. 247).
Insofar, that is, as we are prima facie justified in thinking of something perceived as being a cow really to be cow, and insofar as no overriding cognition is forthcoming, we are entitled to think the perceived fact of its being a cow is real.
Yet he also seems to have appealed in his very discussion of these themes to the certainty of perceived facts about the physical world; e.g., that chariots do not race across the sea.
These advertising men and women work hard to make insubstantial perceptions harden into realities that everyone takes for granted; their jobs revolve around turning malleable opinions into perceived facts.
According to Wolff, human knowledge should be understood primarily as an ability or disposition of the human mind to perceive facts about reality.
Like all of us, American jurors have psyches wired to perceive facts against a backdrop of their own life experiences.
But debunking false claims post-publication usually only reinforces the lie, given the way people perceive fact-checking and "corrections".
How do you take in and perceive facts and concepts?
I cannot understand why the relatively new chairman, David Grigson, hasn't perceived that fact.
