CORRELATION OF THE CONCEPTS “EVENT” AND “FACT”

Abstract

The present paper seeks to analyze the correlation between the concepts “event” and “fact” within the framework of linguistic and philosophical studies. As an overview of the theoretical literature has shown, in both linguistic and philosophical works the concept “event” is correlated with a number of notions, such as changes, actions, processes and facts. If an event exists in time and space, a fact can not be correlated with the real objective world. An event has got an ontological status, whereas a fact belongs to the logical domain. An event is a result of processes and purposeful actions that lead to the changes in situations. It is worth mentioning that these changes are considered to be unusual, extraordinary and are evaluated by society as vital and significant ones. An event also differs from a situation. The dynamic nature of the event is directly opposed to a static essence of a situation which is defined as constant state of affairs.