Sentences with phrase «factual questions of»

In ruling that the trial judge's denial of the class was erroneous, the SJC reasoned,» [T] he essential factual questions of liability in this case — Did a contract or agreement exist?

I don't care if Oklahoma State has bragging rights or if fans are (or aren't) arguing about their Massey Composite rating — it really has no bearing whatever on the factual question of which team was better this season.

The tenant also wants to challenge the Lands Tribunal's insistence that leasehold valuation tribunals must follow its findings on the essentially factual question of what is the correct deferment rate.

Construct validity does not concern the simple, factual question of whether a test measures an attribute.

Not exact matches

Here's my question: When can the repeated assertion of falsehoods despite being confronted by factual evidence be considered «lying»?

You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)

It would nonetheless be all but impossible to provide full and complete responses to the remaining questions set forth in your letter given the important factual nuances, or to speculate as to the rights and remedies of any Person under the Rights Agreement in the absence of a fully developed factual record.

We asked respondents a set of four factual questions about the TPP.

Reason, evidence, scientific method — A commitment to the use of critical reason, factual evidence and scientific method of inquiry in seeking solutions to human problems and answers to important human questions.

When the head of the Joint Chiefs parries a factual question with «trust me,» I don't.

I love the illusion of method here and the effort to cast murky questions as matters of factual error.

The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life.

If God's existence is not a factual question at all, then obviously nothing about the world and the experience of it could possibly either disprove his existence or prove it.

The question as to whether the structure of a cell is more like that of a brain or of a tree is a factual one.

The question of which levels have the radical autonomy introduced by their own internal relations and which are irreducible only by virtue of the internal relations and actions characterizing their parts is always a factual one.

This question, of course, was at least as important to Locke as the problem of insufficient factual knowledge regarding the interaction of physical objects.

Of course, when pressed in conversation, Ford readily admits that the statements in question are not factual but constitute, instead, a highly imaginative hypothesis primarily intended to explain the ever - shifting terminology with which Whitehead expressed his thought and the many textual anomalies — topical discontinuities, clumsy insertions, ghost references, etc — that plague his philosophical books, particularly Science and the Modern World and Process and Reality.

Our first question is, then, whether there is or can be any particular kind of factual statement that tends uniquely to warrant ethical assertions.

This would not only render the presumably factual principle of uniformity logically necessary, it would also beg the question by simply denying the tenability of the claim that laws evolve and insisting on the notion of uniform causation.

What these ancient Hebrew stories witness to is a confidence in the creative and providential activity of God in the world and the affairs of men, a faith which may very well be maintained even though recognizing that the factual correctness of the story may be readily called in question.

As a parent, it's important to answer the tough question of where babies come from in a factual and age appropriate way.

They came from all perspectives and all walks of life and they brought factual information and probing questions to the discussion.

Tamaro, Janet SO THAT»S WHAT THEY»RE FOR: BREASTFEEDING BASICS Adams, 2nd ed., 1998 A light - hearted and humorous look at breastfeeding in contemporary society, full of factual information and down - to - earth answers to the universal questions breastfeeding mothers ask.

the turning of a «statement of fact» into a question, because there's no evidence to support the statement as factual.

Morgan insisted he was not, and accused the shadow home secretary of failing to give «a straight factual answer to this fundamental question».

They're not surprising findings, but the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), says it chose to leave the section out of the 2010 edition of the biennial Science and Engineering Indicators because the survey questions used to measure knowledge of the two topics force respondents to choose between factual knowledge and religious beliefs.

Political divisions are less apparent with factual questions that do not infer climate change, such as whether the melting of Greenland and Antarctic land ice, or of Arctic sea ice, could potentially do the most to raise sea levels.

At the end of the tour, they answered multiple - choice questions asking them to identify objects they had seen or complete factual statements from the audio guide.

But Jack is a biopic that doesn't just wish to track a narrative of one insane man, it's far more interested with bigger questions and in actually hiding the facts (an interesting dichotomy considering much of the film was developed on factual evidence).

The «factual record» of Boston's school superintendent, Robert R. Spillane, apparently was not enough to satisfy the two black members of the city's five - member school committee, who have raised questions about Mr. Spillane's racial «sensitivity» and his suitability for continuing in the job.

Some critics question whether a digital textbook initiative will work, citing lack of quality control over factual information and no comprehensive plan for the future.

It has a combination of short factual recall questions, longer knowledge and understanding questions and diagram questions.

The National Household Education Survey includes a series of factual questions about American politics.

He follows up with a deep arsenal of questions that range from factual to analytical to connective to philosophical.

As our survey did two years ago, we asked respondents a variety of factual questions: whether charter schools can hold religious services, charge tuition, receive more or less per - pupil funding than traditional public schools, and are legally obligated to admit students randomly when oversubscribed.

During guided reading, Jacobs recommends that teachers transform the factual questions that typically appear at the end of a chapter into questions that ask how or why the facts are important.

Questions in the reading section are broken into three broad categories: understanding factual information, evaluating written material (identifying the author's viewpoint, determining the main idea), and drawing inferences (inferring the feelings, motives and traits of characters in a story, predicting likely outcomes).

For example, scenarios reinforce concepts by applying the material presented in real - world situations., while posing questions and providing guidance to learners as to how to research the answer rather than simply giving them factual information in the form of lecture content or quiz question feedback is another open inquiry technique.

By the end of this training, participants will develop good factual questions that will prompt students to build background knowledge and develop their literacy and language skills by expecting them to read, research, and report definitions and details insightfully and in their own unique way.

answering factual, inferential, main idea, and derived - meaning questions from longer narrative passages; working with maps in the context of a passage

BTW, I don't approve of most edits on meta sites because I very rarely find questions on meta sites which deal purely in factual matters, so my answers are generally just my personal feelings on the matter.

The decision on an appeal from an agency's final action is based on a de novo review (question of law), except that the review of the factual findings in a decision by an AJ is based on a substantial evidence standard of review (29 CFR 1614.405 a).

Now ask yourself the question if each of those main points has been supported or substantiated with factual information.

In his collection of stories, Borges gives the «histories» of such infamous people as Billy the Kid and John Andrews Murrell — fictionalized by Borges as Lazarus Morell; while much of what he writes is relatively factual, an ongoing intrusion of invented and modified details causes a reader to question the overall veracity of his accounts.

In recent years, Gursky's experiments in manipulating images have led him to create examples of «fictional photography,» extending his implicit questioning of our faith in the factual veracity of images.

Calling into question the assumption of factual evidence in photographs, his Soucoupe volante (Flying saucer) series features blurred UFOs at various locations across France.

I have continually asked here for posters to supply factual information to get to the bottom of the question I asked.

I simply ask a factual question as to the basis of the study pointing to 97.1 % peer reviwed abstracts.

I don't question the factual basis of what we call the greenhouse effect nor that man - made CO2 emissions may well be contributing to it.

Usually they are factual arguments meant to educate people, especially those who just might be starting to question the two decades of wind power propaganda.