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Why is a definite article used?

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"Bioy Casares had had dinner with me that evening and we became lengthily engaged in a vast polemic concerning the composition of a novel in the first person, whose narrator would omit or disfigure the facts and indulge in various contradictions which would permit a few readers - very few readers - to perceive an atrocious or banal reality" "Fact" this word hasn't been mentioned yet but it is added to the word. Would you tell me the reason why that is like this? The sentence is quoted from [link]

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