The precise nature of the relation between the facts and the statements of them has generated different theories of truth correspondence, coherence, pragmatic, semantic, even "deflationary"—with the question remaining an open one today, although fewer philosophers are pursuing an answer to it.
There is thus a plurality of judgements of the value of objects, of the various ways in which they can contribute and fail to contribute to intrinsically valuable experiences, and an apparent contradictory nature to incomplete verbal statements of them (e.g., "X is good", "X isn't good").
The egregious example of their lack in the horror years of the 1930s and 40s made it overwhelmingly necessary that an unqualified statement of them should accompany the other aspirations expressed in the UDHR.
Most recently, however, an English singer named Petula Clark took note of changes in the social climate with what is almost certainly the best, and what promises to be the most popular, demographic statement of them all, "Downtown": When you're alone, when life is making you lonely, You can always go Downtown.
"People get killed for making statements," one of them told me.
The campaign statements, many of them dripping with indignation, are not limited to races for the Assembly.
In the course of her career, Ms. Snyder has left a wide universe of statements, many of them blunt, for her detractors to dissect.
The document includes an array of witness statements, some of them contradictory, and provides the first account of what may have sparked the fight.
It has taken the Avalanches 10 years to release their second album, Wildflower, a decade punctuated by a succession of further statements, all of them assuring fans that the album would be with them any minute.
In a standard, cut-and-paste, talking-head-and-B-roll documentary you will hear bullet-point statements, some of them quite pithy, on the nature of the subject at hand.
The highly choreographed, three-and-a-half hour event was supposed to be closed to the public, with the exception of a few opening statements, most of them from Western leaders.
