as it turned out

[xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>]

in my exploration of logical writing around 1995 even before hearing 
about lojban, i've wondered what is the logistics of the semantics of 
the phrase "as it turned out"?

for example the sentence: “as it turned out, atoms can be further 
broken down into ...”.

As we know, it means something like "we found out..." or "we realized", 
but not quite just that, since it also connotes something like "the 
nature of the world is such that ...". But the phrase "the nature of 
the world is such that" is quite hard to find a concrete meaning, since 
it seems to me it necessarily calls for some metaphysical stance or 
issues.

What are the lojbanists's views?

(I don't have polished training in logic nor linguistics, so this 
question may not be well founded.)

 Xah
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