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"My lawyer took me out for coffee the day we were doing the statement of facts, to explain why I was signing it.
Mr. Regan, the White House chief of staff, was trying to create an impression that there were persuasive facts to explain the Administration's softness.
Ruse points out that non-teleological explanations exclusively based on past facts to explain adaptation can only be retrospectively constructed after having thought about the metaphor of design.
And someone defending noncognitivism might point to the practical utility of talking as if there were moral facts to explain why moral claims seem to purport to report facts even though they do not.
Recall that a moral naturalist will invoke moral facts to explain certain non-moral facts, for example, the fact that American chattel slavery was so morally repugnant to explain, in part, the extent of the resistance to it at the time of the American civil war (Sturgeon 1985).
Perhaps Kellyanne Conway has "alternative facts" to explain why the newly elected president turned to the National Park Service in an effort to obtain photos showing his inaugural crowd equaled or surpassed the crowd for President Obama's inauguration in 2009.
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Several analysts invoked a Wall Street saying — "buy on the rumor, sell on the fact" — to explain yesterday's losses.
The mystery of double lives persists partly because extremists are rarely available, after the fact, to explain the mechanics of their deception.
How, decades after the fact, to explain an essentially simple-to-understand act of aggression that ended up lasting three years, leaving perhaps 100,000 dead, millions displaced, and uncounted others raped and tortured?
Thus a reference to a singular contingent fact to explain why you never succeed in killing your younger self seems not to fulfil the requirement of being an explanation.
Libet demonstrated that the brain starts responding to an external command before a person makes a conscious decision, suggesting that free will is a rationalization produced by the mind after the fact to explain its actions.
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