Sentences with phrase «objective knowledge of the facts»

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It is a commonplace of modern science that facts are one thing and values quite another, that we can rely on objective scientific knowledge, while subjective metaphysical thinking (the logical positivists would say) is dubious and to be avoided whenever possible.

But although there can be no question that in the last analysis fact is more important than explanation, actually they can not be separated, for some measure of explanation and interpretation — adequate or inadequate, accurate or inaccurate — is part and parcel of any knowledge of objective reality it is given us to have.

Lamin Sanneh reviews a new work by Leslie Newbigin in which Newbigin claims the focus on the dichotomy between «knowledge» of so - called objective facts and «belief» in so - called subjective values is a dichotomy that is rationally indefensible.

But at least two senses of the word can easily be isolated: sometimes, «information» means simply «data,» objective facts given «out there,» things, processes, brute events; at other times, however, it means the cognitive contents of subjective knowledge «in here» about things, processes, events, and so on.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

Ironically though, we still need culture, as quite apart from the fact that we do not know enough to be able to steer society on objective acquired knowledge alone, imagine getting 350 million folks to agree on every part of that steerage by purely rational convincing of each and every one, and integrating / iterating all the responses.

It should consist only of objective evidence of the background facts at the time of the execution of the contract (King, at paras. 66 and 70), that is, knowledge that was or reasonably ought to have been within the knowledge of both parties at or before the date of contracting.

«That background knowledge may well include objective facts communicated by one party to the other in the course of negotiations... the process of interpretation should in principle be the same, whether the negotiations were without prejudice or not.

In fact, the objectives section of an engineer's resume could be broken down to several subcategories for a brisk scan of the candidate's knowledge.

My duty as a forensic evaluator is to aid the trier of fact in answering psychological questions within a legal context while applying objective evaluation and knowledge of case law.»