In the speech delivered in France, the Taliban envoys bluntly declared: "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" — the Taliban's formal name for itself — "is a legitimate fact.
But the distance between what you knew and what you didn't was magic, was a shared realm of legitimate fact and fan fictions.
"Rather than legitimate fact-gathering, this looks more like a political stunt".
The truth is important because it's the yardstick by which we measure our reality, and Ben Stein -- or anyone else -- trying to pass off spectacular whimsy as legitimate fact is, yes, damaging.
If the race of the protagonists in this matter is a legitimate, reportable fact, why not report that the victim of the alleged assault is African-American, as are the other four eyewitnesses and Mayor Robert L. Bowser, who suspended the chief.
Second, even if it is assumed that the property-forming operations are legitimate, the fact is that we are quite often interested in property sets that are not closed under them.
2) Because the idea of the soul does not yield, by itself alone, any knowable object, the arguments about it, although they may have the appearance of being legitimate, in fact involve dialectical applications of concepts.
They did not check with their superiors to see whether the order was legitimate; in fact, they apparently assumed they were being tested for their compliance.
Pigot suggests that gender was a factor: "While Rix Nicholas's claim to be a war artist was legitimate, the fact that she was a woman meant that she was denied an equal place within the discourse".
The only difference was that the business wasn't a scam at all: The stocks and bonds we hawked were legitimate (in fact they were a pretty stable and conservative way to invest).
