Sentence examples for select facts from inspiring English sources
Brock saw himself as an engagé journalist, presenting the "other side," willing to shape and select facts in support of an argument but not to make them up.
When Congress, tasked with oversight of American intelligence operations, is lied to, denied information, and then provided only select facts for limited periods of time, something is wrong.
In rejecting the idea that modes of presentation determine referents by themselves, they say that reference is determined by mode of presentation plus select facts about the environment in which the utterance or experience are had.
A somewhat similar rationale is given for a form of 'two-dimensionalism' about experience contents, which holds that experiences have both indexical Fregean contents, and non-Fregean contents (either Russellian or unstructured) determined by the Fregean contents in conjunction with select facts about the environment in which the experience is had (Chalmers 2004, Thompson 2003).
It's dispositive on the who, what, when, where and how the system broke down, but it's remarkably weak on the question of "why?" "The problem of confirmation bias — the tendency of people to be trapped by pre-existing assumptions and to select facts that support their own views while overlooking contradictory ones — is a well-established finding of social science," Coll & Co. write.
We have gone from selecting sources of opinion that we agree with to selecting facts we agree with".
Like most documentary polemics, it simplifies the issues it confronts and selects facts that bolster its black-and-white, heroes-and-villains view of raw economic power.
To achieve these he deliberately selects facts, arguments, and displays of symbols and presents them in ways he thinks will have the most effect.
Yet to dismiss "King of Bain" because it selects facts, distorts history, and tugs unrelentingly on the viewer's emotions would be to overlook other interesting aspects of the film.
Ditching this for learning selected "facts" celebrating supposed national triumphs or national heroes – such as the battle of Waterloo or Admiral Nelson – would be a drastic form of dumbing down.
