Finally, the best of the three contestants faces Mr. Trimarco, who presents him or her with a verifiable statement -- "That television set will blow up if you press that button," "Wilt Chamberlain is behind that door" -- and fields questions.
On the screen, it's no longer clear who is in charge of the words, or at what point they cross the line between being a fluid, rearrangeable thing in your mind and being a verifiable statement made in public, on the record, for which you may one day have to answer.
For example, Immanuel Kant tried to prove the principle of causality by showing that it is a necessary condition of the possibility of making empirically verifiable statements in natural science.
Two very general forms of reductionism have been held by philosophers in the 20th century: (1) Logical positivists have maintained that expressions referring to existing things or to states of affairs are definable in terms of directly observable objects, or sense-data, and, hence, that any statement of fact is equivalent to some set of empirically verifiable statements.
And a statement is indirectly verifiable if, first, in conjunction with certain other premises it entails one or more directly verifiable statements that are not derivable from these other premises alone, and, second, that these other premises "do not include any statement that is not either analytic, or directly verifiable, or capable of being independently established as indirectly verifiable".
PolitiFact stories focus on verifiable statements, not opinions.
Stations cannot abdicate this responsibility, especially when an ad features verifiable statements made by a person defined by law as a limited purpose public figure.
The defining characteristic of a scientific model is that it can be used to deduce verifiable statements about observable aspects of nature, which makes it possible to test and refine a model using new data from subsequent observations.
Schlick (1931) thus followed Wittgenstein's own suggestion to treat them instead as representing rules for the formation of verifiable singular statements.
In order to obtain a verifiable context, all statements are refined into sub-statements and facts, until there are only facts left.
Setting aside a discussion about whether $106,800 is a significant yearly income or not (and I certainly think it is), it's a statement of verifiable fact that Sloan - theoretically an objective reporter - is on the extreme fringe when he lambastes the proposal to subject more income to payroll taxes.
