The truth of this assertion has been roundly questioned by experts and lawmakers, who also have pointed out that it is an extremely narrow metric by which to measure the success of the existing rules.
The fact that Obama's late effort to save Martha Coakley in Massachusetts failed, and that a state that overwhelmingly elected him in 2008 just handed Teddy's seat to a conservative Republican, demonstrates the truth of this assertion.
There's some degree of truth to this assertion -- it is necessary to get your operations down before investing heavily in a marketing campaign -- but that doesn't mean you can get away with avoiding marketing altogether.
Although there is some truth to this assertion, there is now a considerable body of work in economics that develops the idea that agents may display altruism in their behavior.
Before you can judge the truth of that assertion, however, you have to tackle the menu.
And so, during the Enlightenment, legal experts transformed the law of war by adopting a posture of startling moral modesty: they stipulated that all sovereign states in armed conflict would be treated as if they were fighting on the side of justice, even though the truth of that assertion was disputed.
Indeed, Wittgenstein questions the intra-systemic and extra-mathematical usability of P in various discussions of Gödel in the Nachlass (Rodych 2002, 2003) and, at (§19), he emphatically says that one cannot "make the truth of the assertion ['P' or "Therefore P"] plausible to me, since you can make no use of it except to do these bits of legerdemain".
He also held that, in ordinary speech situations, people commit themselves to the truth of the assertions they make; in particular, they implicitly claim that their assertions can be vindicated in an "ideal speech situation"—a dialogue that is completely free and uncoerced, in which no force prevails but that of the better argument.
So how can you say that if you haven't checked it to be sure?" Ms. Talese replied that while the Random House legal department checks nonfiction books to make sure that no one is defamed or libeled, it does not check the truth of the assertions made in a book.
Any reasonable person should question the truth of these assertions, and a quick read of the Bill proves that none of them are actually true.
The press law puts the burden on the media to prove the truth of any assertion, even the cited opinion of a quoted person or organization.
