Sentence examples for wrong fact from inspiring English sources

Note also that if we follow a Wittgensteinian line, we will indeed allow the (false) proposition that p to be identical with a fact at the very least with itself but we can now, given the failure of (a), say with a clear conscience that that fact is the wrong fact, which does not suffice to render the proposition true.

In the possible world we are considering, where it is false that p, though the fact that p exists, it is not a fact that p, so (a) fails, and there is accordingly no risk of our getting hold of the "wrong" fact.

Right and wrong, fact and fiction are up for grabs on all sides in this arena.

"I heard it... [Romney] picked that one wrong fact," she said.

We separate right from wrong, fact from fiction, delicates from permanent-press!" In response, Colbert ended that segment of the show with his own "60 Minutes -style apology.

A single wrong fact can echo through someone's education for years before it's corrected.

Mitt's rambles to the donors, released by Mother Jones magazine and, in a bit of poetic justice, unearthed by Jimmy Carter's grandson, were a stunning combination of wrong facts, callous sentiments and dumb politics.

An incumbent who sticks with the wrong decisions based on the wrong facts versus a challenger who seems unable to stick to one side of any decision, right or wrong?

Again, debate about whether the theory does point to the wrong facts continues (see Woollard 2015, esp. pp. 185 86, 203 205).

That's what happens when you try to fit the facts into an ideological mold, as Krugman does: You pick the wrong "facts".

A sibling of this objection is that rule-consequentialism makes the justification of rules depend on the wrong facts (Arneson 2005; Portmore 2009).