It was a given, a stable fact of life that was definitional, not dynamic, like the hole in the center of a bagel, without which a bagel would be something else.... Now, though, I had a mother..
Thus, something as minimal as the difference between choosing and bidding can shift preferences between two near-equivalent bets, or so it would seem, calling into question the very existence of a stable fact about preference independent of the way a choice is framed.
This is not a stable fact as policies change [ 6, 23].
There was, let's say, a general mania for rearranging apparently stable facts, such as the way so many cities changed their name, according to the latest sketches of political cartographers.
As Boumans argues, macroeconomic models function as measuring instruments insofar as they produce invariant relations between inputs (indications) and outputs (outcomes), and insofar as this invariance can be tested by calibration against known and stable facts.
Truly, the fundamental problem here is not a school of thought that denies stable facts or documentation.
Remarkably stable, in fact.
Syria remained stable, a fact that Assad attributed to his attention to the "beliefs of the people".
Indeed, just how globalization will continue, and under what legitimate normative constraints, become the proper questions for democratic politics, as citizens and public vigorously interact with those institutions that make globalization a deeply entrenched and temporally stable social fact.
And a policy paper from the central bank this winter indicated that, in Beijing, "stable" can in fact mean "tighter".
"The image is, however, remarkably consistent and stable despite the fact that SDO orbits Earth at 6,876 mph, and Earth orbits the sun at 67,062 mph".
