Sentence examples for conceptions of facts from inspiring English sources

Fine Finee 1982) distinguishes between two conceptions of facts, the propositional and the worldly.

He also distinguishes between two other, orthogonal conceptions of facts, objectualism and anti-objectualism.

Note that Wittgenstein has two different conceptions of fact, a factive and a non-factive one.

A more conciliatory version of this defense is to maintain that there is still a coherent conception of facts shielded from the slingshot (Bennett 1988).

Bradley's conception of facts as primitive qualified existents seems to be also one main source of the view here described as the view that facts are exemplifications of properties.

It is clear from the final paragraph of one of Hornsby's footnotes (1997: 4, n. 6) that she embraces an intensional conception of facts, and so locates them at the level of sense.

Note that this does not involve the Wittgensteinian non-factive conception of facts: for there is nothing according to this picture which is a fact but does not obtain when these properties are indexed to the same parameters (in particular: are taken to hold of the same possible world).

How might this alternative conception of social facts guide a critical and praxeological theory of globalization?

Emerging recent scholarship has started to explore more nuanced conceptions of how law, facts, and judicial preferences may interact to influence judicial decisions.

If the strategy is to stick to a realist or sufficiently objective conception of moral fact, its success will depend on whether the problems canvassed above that confront the possibility of such moral knowledge can be resolved.

Not only is their conception of analysis defective, but, further, their conception of the kinds of facts to be analysed is inadequate.