Deprived of its right to assert facts, Christianity, for example, is reduced to the status of a fan club for the sayings of Jesus.
In the fall of last year, court documents say, Ms. Neathway demanded $15,000 for an undisclosed medical procedure and threatened to "assert facts" to the news media and Mr. Cashman's family if she didn't receive it.
A closely related formalism is that of definite clause grammars (e.g., Pereira & Warren 1982), which employ Prolog to assert "facts" such as that if the input word sequence contains an NP reaching from index I1 to index I2 and a VP reaching from index I2 to index I3, then the input contains a sentence reaching from index I1 to index I3.
Should basic asserted facts be accepted without examination, or do the editors owe the readers more?
Evidence has been described in the literature as " what constitutes actual or asserted facts planned for use in support of a conclusion" [ 15].
He bemoans the asserted fact that "progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress," observing that Social Security remains "frozen, like a fly in amber" despite the increase in life expectancy since its creation in 1935 and that "progressives cling to Medicare 'as we know it' " despite advances in medicine.
In the case of certain facts, such as fire being hot, this is always the case, and of two contradictory disjuncts the one which asserts this fact is always true in a definite manner.
In its former aspect, it asserts the fact that an individual is constituted out of five aggregates (khandas; skandhas); in its latter aspect it means the utter insubstantiality of all elements.
For if all emeralds are green, the natural projection rule asserts this fact from the beginning.
To Clinton, who has spent much of her life fighting to assert which "facts" are relevant to public discourse and which are not, that "in fact" might have rankled.
