"The basic statement is going to be, we have to cut costs on unnecessary spending to protect the business," said Daniel Stelter, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group.
This basic statement is what underlies the change of perspective most typical of the later phase of Wittgenstein's thought: a change from a conception of meaning as representation to a view which looks to use as the crux of the investigation.
Next, a photographer named Red Saunders decided to both avenge Clapton's stupidity and take on the ascendant National Front by putting on concerts under the banner of Rock Against Racism (RAR), whose most basic statement was the presence on its bills of both black and white musicians.
Basic statements are input/output relations expressing constraints on a single reaction.
The question arises, then, as to how any basic statement can falsify a scientific law, given that basic statements are not deducible from scientific laws in themselves?
Yet, following Kant, he strongly repudiates the positivist/empiricist view that basic statements (i.e., present-tense observation statements about sense-data) are infallible, and argues convincingly that such basic statements are not mere 'reports' of passively registered sensations.
Their empirical character would invisibly reside in the requirement that basic statements be singular existential ones describing material objects in space and time much like Neurath's physicalism which would be observable, in a further unspecified logical not psychological sense.
This is why Popper repeatedly emphasises that basic statements are not infallible, and it indicates what he means when he says that they are 'theory laden' perception itself is an active process, in which the mind assimilates data by reference to an assumed theoretical backdrop.
And there are two very important points to make, here, which both stem from a very basic statement: Sadr is part of the Iraqi government.
"One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely.
There have been many objections to the indispensability argument, including Charles Parsons' (1980) concern that the obviousness of basic mathematical statements is left unaccounted for by the Quinean picture and Philip Kitcher's (1984, pp. 104 105) worry that the indispensability argument doesn't explain why mathematics is indispensable to science.
