Sentence examples for Definite facts from inspiring English sources

They picked up legends & artifacts but no definite facts about the tribe of women living without husbands.

These are not definite facts which can be answered with "yes" or "no". THE PRESIDENT: The defendant has just said that the whole document is wrong, and he has also said that the document was obtained from him under duress.

Before President Hoover called upon leading corporations, governors of state and mayors of cities to co-operate in speeding up construction and other work, FORBES had sent requests for definite facts and figures to these very people.

For example, the properties of being a table and being a cat are properties of this kind; there are definite facts of the matter as to how many tables are in the kitchen and how many cats are on those tables.

For every definite fact you unearth about the genesis of a drink, there'll be three alternative versions.

The only definite fact known about Diocletian during this period is that he was among those army chiefs whom Carinus gathered, together with the Illyrians, to fight against the Persians.

Geach's review sent Prior back to the ancient sources, and he found Aristotle describing some propositions about the future propositions concerning events that are not determined at the time of utterance as being neither true nor false when they are uttered, on the ground that there is, at that time, as yet no definite fact with which they accord or conflict.

Yarrell's Birds was mentioned in a well-known letter to The Times in 1913, when a Fellow of the Royal Society, the naturalist and paleontologist Richard Lydekker, wrote on 6 February that he had heard a cuckoo, explaining that though contrary to Yarrell's statement that records of the bird calling as early as March "must be treated with suspicion, if not with incredulity", it was a definite fact.

It is a very definite fact that veteran pitchers gradually lower the delivery from overhand to three-quarters and then side arm.

It's okay to go into a situation with preconceived notions, but don't take these reviews as gospel and adopt them as definite, irrefutable facts.

Instrumentalists about belief regard belief attributions as useful for certain purposes, but hold that there are no definite underlying facts about what people really believe, or that beliefs are not robustly real, or that belief attributions are never in the strictest sense true (these are not exactly equivalent positions, though they are closely related).