A restaurant chain, for example, might use Factual to figure out whether a new location is near the competition, and how the locals have talked about the place on Yelp, the social ratings site.
And the only serious factual show to figure is Frozen Planet which, given that Sir David Attenborough is 85, raises concerns about the medium's ability to renew itself.
Studies the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of arguments.
However, almost as soon as the transcript was released by his office, he was accused on social media and then by a series of Israeli political figures of factual errors in his assertions.
In order to assess the impact of general ignorance, I measured how much my respondents knew about politics by asking them a series of three factual questions about political figures and political processes.
In Figure 1, factual sentences (denoted as 'Background', sentences 1, 2 and 4) are distinguished from a sentence containing information inferred from the 'Background', a hypothesis driving and justifying the work presented in the article ('Hypothesis', sentence 3).
We lose Freud and Jung from the historical figures who give factual texture to the fictional story.
Accompanied by a bibliography and historical documents, hundreds of cross-referenced, concise, purely factual entries cover the key figures, military units, battles, dates, locales, strategies, and diplomatic turning points of the Vietnam War.
She said she did not support halal certification and that "98% of Australians" opposed it, a figure seemingly without factual basis.
Interestingly, his father expressed similar views in his letters to his son, providing the genesis of his son's reflections, and this conclusion is expressed as late as the 1946 publication of The Idea of Christ in the Gospels where Santayana presents the idea of Christ as poetic and imaginative, contrasted with attempts at historical, factual accounts of the Christ figure.
In factual terms, the latest verifiable, global figures for investment and patent applications reflect an uptick in both areas, a trend that's likely to continue.
