Sentence examples for soft facts from inspiring English sources

Deciding what prices to use for which channels starts with developing business rules that combine "hard facts" about price elasticity and competitive pricing, such as the impact of price change on demand by segment, with "soft facts" such as consumers' willingness to accept price differences by channel.

It is easy enough to give an account of soft facts which fails, apparently, to meet the second condition.

In this way, one can make a distinction between "soft facts" and "hard facts" regarding the past (see Plantinga 1986).

But it is difficult to see how this species of soft facts could fulfil the first condition.

Accordingly, Plantinga (1986) and some of the authors of the papers in Fisher (1989) on the distinction between "hard" facts and "soft" facts deny (4).

It is also, as we have seen in connexion with logical fatalism, easy enough to delineate a species of soft facts about the past which do meet the second condition.

A "soft" fact about the past is one that is in part about the future.

Unfortunately it is not at all clear quite how the notion of a soft fact should be made precise.

An example of a soft fact about the past would be the fact that it was true yesterday that a certain event would occur a year later.

One might, for instance, say that if a proposition about t logically entails a proposition about a later time, it expresses a soft fact about t.

For instance we might say that a proposition expresses a soft fact about a time if it entails a proposition about another time.