But only sort-of, because facts are rarely simple bare truth propositions – and almost never in politics.
On the first, an omniscient being would know all truths, propositions expressed by present-tensed sentences predicate properties of whatever time has a time-haecceity T, but they and all other propositions are eternally true.
We found that when Californians began to hear the truth about Proposition 23, the polls started to show fading support for Big Oil's attempt to undermine our laws.
According to the identity theory of truth, true propositions do not correspond to facts, they are facts: the true proposition that snow is white = the fact that snow is white.
Wilde is clearly not alluding to the logical truth of propositions or the empirical truths of natural science.
Logical concepts focus on evidential support for the truth of propositions.
According to the contextualist thesis, no sentence expresses a complete (truth-evaluable) proposition; i.e., there are no 'eternal' sentences.
Notice that the Mohist version of the principle concerns predicating terms of objects, not the truth of propositions.
In sharp contrast, the truth of propositions concerning matters of fact depends on the way the world is.
