In the drunken driving case, Obama admitted to sufficient facts, meaning he did not plead guilty but acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.
"The reaction is intense and does not fit the facts, meaning dogs do not cause imminent danger but a person will react as though they do".
Information may be gained, but information delivered nakedly without the intervening and guiding perspective of a teacher who is aware of the multiple (and often clashing) contexts that give facts meaning and depth will be as inert as the screen that displays it.
According to Dowe 'the temperature is unbearable' is a disjunctive fact, meaning 'the temperature is less than x' for a certain x, which in turn means 'the temperature is y or z or …'.
Accompany this assertion with a knowing look, apparently dense with meaning, but in fact meaning nothing at all.
Whether an attorney-in-fact — meaning the person appointed by the power-of-attorney document to act on another's behalf — has a duty to keep other heirs and siblings informed will depend on how the document is worded, the applicable state law and the facts of the situation.
In fretting that science, particularly genetics, will again be used to justify social inequities, he does not keep clear enough the distinction between equality of treatment as a political principle and equality (or its absence) as a matter of fact, meaning how much people vary in some humanly interesting dimension (height, immunity to disease, intelligence and so on).
"Shocking" was the word Andy Roddick used and, although he might have been referring to his own performance in losing 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-1 to Lleyton Hewitt in the second of the semi-finals, he was in fact meaning the Australian's previous failure, in eight attempts, to get beyond the last 16 of his own grand slam championship.
Today's ruling affirms Judge Walker's findings of fact, meaning that they can but used in the future in other trial cases in the 9th Circuit that deal with LGBT rights.
Similarly, it has been suggested that there is an important difference between hypothetical norms involving ordinary non-normative facts (such as facts about the weather) and norms involving meaning facts: Since meaning facts are constituted by correctness conditions, meaning facts always dictate how I should behave when I intend to produce a meaningful utterance.
I could only tell them facts, and facts without meaning are the very enemy of truth.
