State of affairs
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State of affairs has some technical usages in philosophy, as well as being a phrase in everyday speech in English. It is a way of referring to a factual situation. States of affairs may be actual or hypothetical. They may be possible or (in some sense) impossible. They are things for which people may wish, or guard against.
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