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Facts are supposed to be the grounds for truths. However, consider a conjunctive statement like "Paris is in France and New York City is in the USA". What fact grounds that?

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The conjunctive statement "Paris is in France and New York City is in the USA" is grounded in factual geographical knowledge that can be verified and is accurate according to the correspondence theory of truth.

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The conjunctive statement "Paris is in France and New York City is in the USA" is grounded in facts as both parts of the statement can be proven to be true. For a statement to be considered a fact, it must be something that is correct, factual, and accurate, established by experiment or observation. In this case, geographical knowledge that is universally recognized allows us to verify that both Paris is indeed a city in France, and New York City is a city within the United States of America. This makes the statement true according to the correspondence theory of truth, which states that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to some fact or state of affairs in the world.

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