fact vs surmise

fact

noun
  • Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. 

  • An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse. 

  • An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts. 

  • Something which is real. 

  • A wrongful or criminal deed. 

  • Something actual as opposed to invented. 

  • Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances. 

intj
  • Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one. 

surmise

noun
  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

How often have the words fact and surmise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )