I operate on facts being something that can be shown to be true or false i.e. something that is not an opinion. Here's one I found on Google define that's close to what I've always used:
"Fact: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
Thus, a thing that can be proven one way or the other given verifying information. Something that is factual is something that is of facts. Something can be false and still grounded in reality, because reality shows it to be false, hence your definition holds as well...because they're effectively the same thing.
That sounds more like what I would use for a definition of the word "falsifiable."
I understand the word "factual" to require that the thing so named be true, which is what I understand the definition to mean when it talks about things "grounded in reality."
I operate on facts being something that can be shown to be true or false i.e. something that is not an opinion. Here's one I found on Google define that's close to what I've always used:
"Fact: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"
Thus, a thing that can be proven one way or the other given verifying information. Something that is factual is something that is of facts. Something can be false and still grounded in reality, because reality shows it to be false, hence your definition holds as well...because they're effectively the same thing.