But whatever we say about such arguments, it would be mistake to attribute to Pollock, Moore, and others who share their views the idea that specific claims about what we know cannot be overthrown on the basis of empirical information.
But it was not until Breitbart published its story that the specific claims crossed Mr. Trump's desk.
Second, that David Kelly would have been wrong to tell BBC reporters that a specific claim, that some of Iraq's illegal weapons could be deployed within 45 minutes, had been inserted against the objections of the spies, to "sex up" the dossier.
Upon looking at that decision as published in the official reports (241 N. Y. 405, 150 N. E. 497, 43 A. L. R. 909), we find it stated by the reporter in his accompanying synopsis of the briefs that the brief on behalf of the relator embodied the specific claim that the statute was invalid because in conflict with the equal protection and other provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Bloggers also used the space to take down the specific claim that the cost of piracy in the US is $58 billion, a number bloggers showed was vastly overblown and based on faulty assumptions.
The Bayesian approach is not immune to this criticism, though it is less vulnerable to the specific claim that its inherent logic is biased to this conclusion.
In response to the specific claim that Royal Mail's productivity left room for improvement the company added: "the ongoing decline in letter volumes means that the incentives on Royal Mail to reduce costs are already strong.
Which poor bastard did they take down?" The group then countered the specific claim that the suspect, Essex nineteen year old Ryan Cleary, is involved with LulzSec with "Ryan Cleary is not part of LulzSec; we house one of our many legitimate chatrooms on his IRC server, but that's it," from the group's official Twitter account.
I have made clear that I reject the specific claims that have been made against me in recent days, and I look forward to taking a full part in the review process so I can respond to the allegations in detail.
In a statement on Tuesday, the "Live with Kelly & Ryan" and "American Idol" host said, "Yesterday, Variety published a salacious story that revealed the specific claims against me for the first time ― even though an independent third-party investigator found insufficient evidence to support the claims.
