Sentence examples for mistake of fact from inspiring English sources

He said the defense's suggestion that Sergeant Mejia might have thought he was free of service in a good-faith "mistake of fact" was undercut by his admitted five months hiding in Boston and New York.

Other ways of expressing the fact that an inference is deductively valid are to say that the truth of the premises gives (or would give) an absolute guarantee of the truth of the conclusion or that it would involve a logical inconsistency (as distinct from a mere mistake of fact) to suppose that the premises were true but the conclusion false.

It was decided Carrall had made an " honest and reasonable mistake of fact".

Concerning the requirement to resist a lawful arrest, the defendant only lacks the required mens rea if he believes in facts which, if true, would make the arrest unlawful; not just that he believes the facts as they are make the arrest illegal – a mistake of fact suffices, a mistake of law does not.

This meant their breach of the law had happened largely due to an exculpating mistake of fact on the part of Morrow, who intended to end the stunt before crossing into restricted territory, but who received no explicit indications as to where that territory began − and was indeed waved farther into it by the police.

Look for a mistake of fact on the ticket.

Among several mistakes of fact, he repeatedly refers to Peru as the richest and most important of the Spanish colonies, when by the 18th century Mexico accounted for two-thirds of the empire's revenues.

We depend on the Web to serve as a self-cleaning oven, revealing bad reporting and mistakes of fact and then fixing those pixels to reflect the current truth.

As someone who has read and reread, with a mixture of abject shame and contempt, dozens of letters from readers who noticed that I'd misidentified a church in a magazine article about Caravaggio, I hesitate to mention that when Hughes's book appeared in England some reviewers noted mistakes of fact and interpretation, particularly in the pages on antiquity.

First, philosophers committed to the idea of a private language are often looking for an arrangement in which mistakes of fact are impossible; that is, they are trying to overcome scepticism by finding absolute certainty.

Sometimes this is because we underestimate how pleasurable future pleasures will be (relative to present pleasures) or overestimate how painful present pains are (relative to future pains); and sometimes this is because we just make simple mistakes of fact, thinking, for example, that bloodletting will ease the pain of gout.