Sentences with phrase «judge veracity»

We can not judge the veracity of scientific formulae by making subjective estimations of their likelihood of being true.

Well, there's one way to judge the veracity of that comment and that is to see if the book (s) is still on the shelf.

When policymakers see scientific reports or interact with scientists, judging the veracity of the scientific claim can be daunting, especially when there are contradicting views (i.e., dueling experts).

Not exact matches

by Bill Chambers Those planning on taking in Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow this weekend solely to judge the credibility of its disaster - movie hijinks would be better off buying a ticket to its competition in several North American markets, Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold (Talaye sorkh), in which a scenario of inevitable, cyclical doom unfolds with astonishing veracity.

Surely we wish to judge the IPCC on the veracity of its calculations not on its abilities in accurately predicting the future w.r.t. such things as the speed with which CFCs would be phased out, the drop in methane emissions from waste tips and petrochemicals, the collapse of Communism, etc..

I keep reading the Heller / Goddard «outbursts» on the increasing difference between raw and «manipulated» data — reducing pre 1960 temperatures and increasing current readings and find it so disturbing and being unable to judge independently the veracity of his work I keep looking for verification or otherwise by wiser persons.

Your definition is the precise definition (judging by the look of it, making no claim as to its veracity) if your want to calculate the value from basic physics.

The judge said that the veracity of the memoir was not an issue in the earlier court battle, which he said was instead about breaches of contract between the authors and the publisher.

Assuming veracity of obiter (and there is older (non-SCC) case law suggesting otherwise) if matter covered by deliberative secrecy judges likely continue to be bound in retirement.