All the more ironic is that in counseling us to «respect the facts», he should made several
further errors of fact, not least in his translation of «Nullius in Verba», but also in his statement of fact that» 15 — 40 per cent of species potentially facing extinction after only 2 °C of warming», omitting the fact that this is aworst - case scenario predicted by just a single study.
Not exact matches
I shall argue that Whitehead did in
fact badly misinterpret Aristotle's concept
of substance, as Eslick claimed, and I shall suggest that,
far from amounting to an inconsequential
error in historical exegesis, this misconception was a strong influence in turning Whitehead's metaphysics in the direction
of an epochal theory
of becoming.
This is a desperate
error, or rather a desperate mistake, which overlooks (yes, and what is worse, it overlooks the
fact that what it overlooks is pretty nearly the best thing that can be said
of a man, since
far worse often occurs)-- it overlooks the
fact that the majority
of men do never really manage in their whole life to be more than they were in childhood and youth, namely, immediacy with the addition
of a little dose
of self - reflection.
The
error arises from a wrong interpretation
of the obvious
fact that everybody wants to be a self, to have a sense
of the value
of his or her selfhood, and to realize, so
far as may be, the potentialities given in that selfhood.
I know well whereof Peter Kreeft speaks, and in
fact have a rather guilty conscience about purveying some
of the
errors of the Received Wisdom myself from time to time until my
further reading informed me how deceived I (and my hapless students) had been.
But this is a grave
error to make and in
fact for schools, the physical activity levels
of their pupils may be
far more important than would appear at first glance.
One
of the most irksome
errors we encountered so
far, was the
fact that when you adjusted your brightness level allot
of programs discounted your settings resulted in your screen being bright one moment and dim the next.
In
fact, I think the «climategate» and IPCC -
errors controversies has had
far less
of an impact on public opinion and on journalism than a lot
of people have assumed.
This might seem trivial but the 6.5 Watts / m ^ 2 is
far greater than the 3.71 Watts / m ^ 2 that the CO2 forcing parameter inputs for a doubling
of CO2 so this
error is in
fact significant enough to more than wipe out the entire catastophic global warming predicted for a doubling
of CO2.
In spite
of his own
errors, May is deeply suspicious
of any attempt to subject claims about the future
of the world's climate to scientific scrutiny, and he steps
further outside the realm
of material
fact to speculate that those guilty
of not respecting the
facts belong to an «active and well - funded «denial lobby»» that is «misinforming the public about the science
of climate change».
Except where there is a «red flag» prompting
further inquiry, such as an obvious
error in the material or where information has come to light which casts a doubt on the reliability or integrity
of the
facts or opinions in the underlying material, there was no duty to examine the procedural fairness
of investigations upon which
facts and opinions in a reference were based.