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fact and cognates
That is, they appear to be, or are sometimes considered, cognates, when in fact they are not.
In fact, a pair of false friends may be true cognates ( see false friends: causes ).
Care however needs to be taken in identifying anglicisms as some words such as mogue ( mug ) or canne ( can ) which are often assumed to have been borrowed from English were in fact Norman words exported to England in the wake of the Norman Conquest, and words such as fliotchet ( flock ) and ridgi ( rig ) are Norman cognates of English words.
Many of the Romanian substratum words have Albanian cognates, and if these words are in fact Dacian, it indicates that the Dacian language may have been on the same branch as Albanian.
In fact, the Slavic and the Baltic ( nowadays usually translated as prince ) are cognates of king.

fact and exist
theologians have been stressing the fact that the Church does not exist for its own sake but as a testimony in the world for the healing of the world.
For example, an " anti-realist " who denies that other minds exist ( i. e., a solipsist ) is quite different from an " anti-realist " who claims that there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not there are unobservable other minds ( i. e., a logical behaviorist ).
It is questionable that the results would be different if cases were conducted under the differing approaches ; in fact no statistics exist that can show whether or not these systems would come to the same results.
# the theory that the whole consists of indivisible atoms ( whereas, in fact, none such exist ),
If he himself philosopher did not exist, he would not be there to ask questions about the nature of reality ... on the other hand, this fundamental fact, which we call existence, soon proves a rather barren topic for philosophic speculation ...
In fact several isotopes of an element may exist.
Since it is possible for such things not to exist, there must be some time at which these things did not in fact exist.
This in spite of the fact that tools may exist to help migration between specific DBMS.
An " anti-realist " who denies that other minds exist ( i. e., a solipsist ) is different from an " anti-realist " who claims that there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not there are unobservable other minds ( i. e., a logical behaviorist ).
In response to Locke, he put forth in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ( 1710 ) an important challenge to empiricism in which things only exist either as a result of their being perceived, or by virtue of the fact that they are an entity doing the perceiving.
The older the constitution, the more constitutional leeway tends to exist for a head of state to exercise greater powers over government, as many older parliamentary system constitutions in fact give heads of state powers and functions akin to presidential or semi-presidential systems, in some cases without containing reference to modern democratic principles of accountability to parliament or even to modern governmental offices.
* All at One Point — The fact that all matter and creation used to exist in a single point.
It may be that irreducible complexity does not actually exist in nature, and that the examples given by Behe and others are not in fact irreducibly complex, but can be explained in terms of simpler precursors.
In fact, it does not have an exact present form, as " Linnaean taxonomy " as such does not really exist: it is a collective ( abstracting ) term for what actually are several separate fields, which use similar approaches.
The top quark, which he and other physicists realized must exist according to the standard model, was, in fact, produced at Fermilab not long after this book was published.
Only by the strongest pressure of the Crown were Parliaments maintained during the first century of their existence and the best proof of this assertion lies in the fact that in those countries where the Crown was weak, Parliament ceased to exist.
The anthropic principle states a logical truism: the fact of our existence as intelligent beings who can measure physical constants requires those constants to be such that beings like us can exist.
Although James certainly agreed with Peirce and against Berkeley that general ideas exist as a psychological fact, he was a nominalist in his ontology:
This is further complicated by the fact that gravitons can propagate in ( 3 + 1 ) dimensions and consequently that would imply gravitons and dilatons exist in the real world.
The immunity stems from the fact that each trope ( attribute ) can only be held by one concrete particular, thus qualitively indiscernible objects can exist while being numerically identical and the identity of indiscernibles therefore does not hold.
It is difficult to truly define the Korean sword, due to the fact that many swords exist in Korea that have no distinct relation in style and construction.
In fact, they're not really species, they all interbreed, but the names exist to express a real phenomenon which is this incredible morphological diversity.
This discovery filled a gap in the periodic table, and the fact that no stable isotopes of technetium exist explains its natural absence on Earth ( and the gap ).

fact and such
Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.
Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.
Now in the mere fact of the beginning of such displacement we have prima-facie evidence of the ontological weakness of the fading form.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
The fact that he nowhere mentioned theatrical performances as part of the activities of the boys later in his hypothetical academy ( 1644 ) should not be taken too seriously as evidence that he desired them to eschew such performances.
One such, in fact, is a rug.
Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.
Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.
Some of them are obvious, such as the fact that we associate recorded and live music with our responses and behavior in different types of environments and social settings.
I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.
The fact that such threat is potent in the beginning reading lessons is thought to be a vital factor in the continued pattern of failure or under-achievement these children exhibit.
As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.
The question, then, is whether sufficient discrimination in the use of even non-violent means of coercion is to be found in the fact that such conduct demoralizes and overcomes the opponent while re-moralizing and re-establishing him.
There is however no point in speculating about such a possibility: the fact of the matter is that our institutions of higher learning owe their existence to a spirit not unlike that which produces the `` family business ''.
In fact, it is in just such a situation that the profundity of Bultmann's argument is disclosed.
Yet the fact remains that such institutions do set men at odds with their fellows.
The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).
Swift also recognizes the implications of such a fact in making mercantilist philosophy a paradox: the wealth of a country is based on the poverty of the majority of its citizens.
Sometimes slightly stronger theories such as Morse-Kelley set theory or set theory with a strongly inaccessible cardinal allowing the use of a Grothendieck universe are used, but in fact most mathematicians can actually prove all they need in systems weaker than ZFC, such as second-order arithmetic.

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