With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

He says that the matter is far from resolved, and that certain facts may soon come to light which will clear up the matter.

" Peirce also held as a matter of ontology that what he called " thirdness ", the more general facts about the world, are extra-mental realities.

It is used in modern legal English to signify that on first examination, a matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.

Under the Covenant of the League of Nations, all League members agreed that where there was a dispute between states which they " recognize to be suitable for submission to arbitration and which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy ", the matter would be submitted to the Court for arbitration, with suitable disputes being over the interpretation of an international treaty, a question on international law, the validity of facts which, if true, would breach international obligations and the nature of any reparations to be made for breaching international obligations.

disguise the matter as they will, but the facts are incontrovertible.

::“ Surely the utilitarian must admit that whatever the facts of the matter may be, it is logically possible that an ‘ unjust ’ system of punishment — e. g. a system involving collective punishments, retroactive laws and punishments, or punishments of parents and relations of the offender — may be more useful than a ‘ just ’ system of punishment ?”

Another common device is the " false generalization ", an abstraction of the argument that shifts discussion to platitudes where the facts of the matter are lost.

Scientific facts are generally believed to be independent of the observer: no matter who performs a scientific experiment, all observers will agree on the outcome.

Johnston maintains, " Even if the lower-level facts make up identity do not in themselves matter, the higher-level fact may matter.

Historians since then have argued over the facts of the matter and how to interpret them, with little agreement occurring throughout history.

The author of Oregon Geographic Names, Lewis A. McArthur, said that although the origin of this name is disputed, he puts great weight in Levi Ankeny who supplied this information as he was " thoroughly familiar with the early history and tradition of the Wallowa Valley " and " on intimate terms with many Indians who knew the facts of the matter ".

Locke always believed in good sense — not pushing things to extremes and on taking fully into account the plain facts of the matter.

He tends to exclude all the ' boring facts ' such as dates, because, he maintains " dates don't matter.

Vander Zalm defended the statements about Hughes, saying they were fair comments, not facts, and that they were made as a matter of public interest.

In each ecological or ethological study the terms applied should reflect the facts in the contexts relevant to the matter in question.

In many fields such as mathematics and science it is still a matter of controversy as to whether rote memorization of facts such as the multiplication table or boiling point of water is still necessary.

The only form of true statement actionable under U. S. defamation law is " public disclosure of private facts ", which would be inapplicable here because the existence of the non-voided conviction is a matter of public record.

Hence, whether to keep or to synonymize it is entirely a matter of philosophy, as the scientific facts would agree with either approach.

It therefore implies greater care than usual in the act of the performance of one's duty, such as in testimony to the facts of the matter in a court of law.

Summary judgment is awarded if the undisputed facts and the law make it clear that it would be impossible for one party to prevail if the matter were to proceed to trial.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

In the early 20th century, Louis Brandeis, later appointed to the United States Supreme Court, became noted for his use of policy-driving facts and economics in his briefs, and extensive appendices presenting facts that lead a judge to the advocate's conclusion.

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

As nutritional intake guidelines were created in various countries and the nutrition facts label became commonplace, consumers, advocacy groups, and health organizations have focused on the nutritional value of junk foods, including potato chips.

* From the 17th century onwards, it also became possible to use the term ' theology ' to refer to study of religious ideas and teachings that are not specifically Christian ( e. g., in the phrase ' Natural Theology ' which denoted theology based on reasoning from natural facts independent of specifically Christian revelation ), or that are specific to another religion ( see below ).

In 1991, when it became possible again to discuss the facts pertaining to the massacre, the Slovenian government decided to build a memorial to the victims of Teharje.

As is the case with many other major poets of ancient Greece, Ibycus became famous not just for his poetry but also for events in his life, largely the stuff of legend: the testimonia are difficult to interpret and very few biographical facts are actually known.

The facts that the enclave was Assyrian, rather than Hittite, and that the city name became the language name, suggest that the Hittites were already in a position of influence, perhaps dominance, in central Anatolia.

There was considerable debate between its proponents and those favouring a rival theory known as plutonism which gave a significant role to volcanic origins, and in modified form replaced neptunism in the early 19th century as the principle of uniformitarianism was shown to fit better with the geological facts as they became better known.

His catalog of lives of the saints became the standard for all of the Western and Eastern hagiographers, who would create relative biographies and images of the ideal saints by gradually departing from the real facts of their lives.

As the facts became known, there was wide recognition that the two astronomers had independently solved the problem of Uranus, and each was ascribed equal importance.

( 1909 ) in the book he admitted that he was a materialist for most of his life until he had studied the mediumship of Eusapia Palladino which he believed was genuine, he later became convinced of the existence of spirits and wrote " I am ashamed and grieved at having opposed with so much tenacity the possibility of the so called spiritistic facts ".

After an interview in which the Guinness directors enjoyed testing the twins ' knowledge of records and unusual facts, the brothers agreed to start work on the book that became The Guinness Book of Records in 1954.

In the American effort to rebuild Europe following World War II, two facts became clear to policy makers: private investment is a more powerful generator of economic development than aid ; and there is an appropriate role for government in encouraging private investment where it has the potential to do the most good.

Whatever the facts, two of Robert's sons became kings of France: Odo and Robert.

A celebrity anecdotalist, she was also never one to let facts spoil a good story: " With each book came a new spate of interviews and as one of the last survivors of the silent era, Anita's stories became more exaggerated and she was soon reported to have sold her first scenario at the age of twelve.

When proportion matched the participant's, judgment became more extreme, yet less so when shared facts were redundant.

These facts have made the theorem difficult to understand, and challenging to apply in a practical way — until recently, when computational implementations became available ( Egri-Nagy & Nehaniv 2005, 2008 ).

: " It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America … and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

Michael Isikoff and David Corn noted that " An editor who worked on Saddam Hussein & the Crisis in the Gulf recalled that Mylroie often became obsessed with individual facts and exaggerated their importance: ' She was capable of great insight and of investing the smallest detail with the most disproportionate weight.

The three facts became an internet meme which spawned numerous imitation Real Ultimate Power websites dedicated, for example, to Conan O ' Brien, liquor store clerks, wizards, and sorority girls.

However, once the facts became known and published, the general commentary in musical circles moved towards the complaints of awkwardness of some of the material, poor workmanship, and the idea of him as a second-rate composer, intruding in on Mozart's coattails.

New facts only became known based on research by Henri Ellenberger and subsequently by Albrecht Hirschmüller, who were able to find Breuer ’ s case history of Pappenheim and other documents in the archives of the Bellevue Clinic in Kreuzlingen.