Sentences with phrase «factual claims»

When making factual claims, citing reliable sources is encouraged and appreciated.

The two are rivals when, for example, religion makes counter factual claims about the world.

The only factual claim is the the deal exists if the store participates in the deal.

We also won't allow comments containing allegedly factual claims that we know to be wrong, or which we simply lack the time or resources to verify.

In doing so, the fundamentalist is claiming that the truth of the Bible is tied up with factual claims that can be intellectually defended.»

So certain factual claims get laid aside in the heat, when bioethical disputes move up to culture war level.

To say that «what happened in Jesus was of the Spirit» is not a factual claim dependent upon a biological miracle, but a way of seeing Jesus that immediately involves seeing him as the decisive disclosure of God.

«It is worth noting,» he writes, «that both biblical criticism and apologists for the idea of inerrancy are primarily concerned with the rational legitimacy of the text when viewed as a description of factual claims.

They appear to make factual claims, for example, that after the Resurrection Jesus ascended into heaven, whereas this may be a coded way of expressing the hope that «Love is the strongest power in the universe.»

Readers of her book should be warned not to accept its factual claims without checking their sources.»

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

Apologetics, in its attempt to defend the factual claims of the Bible through the use of reason, thus implicitly affirms the very philosophical outlook that undermines its own project, placing the truth of Christianity in the realm of rational reflection and thus into the realm of reasonable doubt and provisionality.»

«Thus the truth affirmed by Christianity ends up being treated like any other set of factual claims, claims that are provisional and open to being proven wrong.

Like Mill, Hartshorne responds to this question by making a factual claim about the fundamentality of «high quality» experience as an object of desire.

As far as I can tell, you chiefly dispute two factual claims I'm making: 1.

If a new report truly is a false statement of fact that causes harm to someone's reputation, and if the news reporter has no actual factual basis for the factual claim, the First Amendment does permit the courts to impose both civil and criminal liability for the false statements, with civil suits brought by someone who is harmed and criminal liability enforced by the government.

But his factual claim is false.

The government could choose to argue that - as some government supporters also advocate - but that is not the argument that Osborne or Clegg have used this week, which has been the factual claim that the spending changes are distributionally progressive.

Many of the factual claims here are (at least) non-obvious.

«If we all had to research every factual claim we were exposed to, we'd do nothing else,» Nyhan says.

These studies» factual claims and policy recommendations, which are their main purpose, have no scientific basis.

You are going to get as good as it gets and you would be amazed how true and factual our claims are!!

In total, the works in Off Camera challenge our vision by making visible that which is not apparent, posit the impossible, confuse genres, subvert photography's traditions and factual claims, and manipulate reality and meaning.

In other words, advocates of climate change action, respond to claims of opponents to climate change programs by denying the factual claims of the opponents.

On the contrary, I made a factual claim that Temperature is not = to Climate, without considering the energy that is stored in moisture.

The fact that the nature of the statement is not a factual claim but a simple metaphorical opinion of the company based on it's interpretation of sales data means it technically can not be a «False» Statement.

The activity itself may be a choice early in the case, such as to include a factual claim on a form pleading even though the facts are not the classic version of that claim.

One fact - check organization claimed 85 per cent of Trump's factual claims were false, but only 25 per cent of Clinton's facts were false.

Doing would involve the usual steps of drafting the complaint, serving the defendant, waiting to see if he answers and if so what legal or factual claims the defendant will dispute.

Bob's factual claims are supported by objective information from the local MLS.