Citations:alternative fact

English citations of alternative fact

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• 2017 January 22, Kellyanne Conway and Chuck Todd, Meet the Press transcript appearing in Washington Post[1]:

  (Conway): You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.

  (Todd): Wait a minute. Alternative facts? […] Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

• 2013, Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Jianzhong Li, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Web Technologies and Applications: 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2013, Sydney, Australia, April 4-6, 2013, Proceedings, Springer →ISBN, page 527

  In other works, the trustful fact statement is identified from the alternative fact statements of a target fact statement. Here, the alternative statements are the fact statements which are answers to the question corresponding to the target fact ...

• 2013, Weiyi Meng, Ling Feng, Stephane Bressan, Werner Winiwarter, Wei Song, Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 18th International Conference, DASFAA 2013, Wuhan, China, April 22-25, 2013. Proceedings, Springer →ISBN, page 155

  In [9][10], the trustful fact statement is picked out from the target fact statement and the alternative fact statements. There are three limitations in these studies: (i) The doubt unit(s) must be specified, otherwise the alternative fact statements ...

• 2012, Mario BUNGE, Scientific Research II: The Search for Truth, Springer Science & Business Media →ISBN, page 159

  For instance, negative facts, alternative facts and general facts have to be admitted: if something does not happen “it” is called a negative fact; if two possibilities are open we are led to talk about an alternative fact; and if a set of facts of the ...

• 2009, William Fish, Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion, Oxford University Press →ISBN

  So either the illusory experience acquaints the subject with the fact of the car's being red—in which case, the phenomenal property is the same after all—or it does not, in which case there is no obvious alternative fact that the subject is ...

• 1998, Mario Bunge, Philosophy of Science: From Explanation to Justification, Transaction Publishers →ISBN, page 178

  "it" is called a negative fact; if two possibilities are open we are led to talk about an alternative fact; and if a set of facts of the same kind occur they are collectively called a general fact. But this is misleading: it leads to confusing facts with ideas ...

• 1989, Richard J. Young, Practical PROLOG, Van Nostrand Reinhold Computer

  B. An alternative fact or rule is denned as a fact or a rule with the same predicate name and the same number of arguments. C. If PROLOG finds an alternative, it evaluates the fact or the rule. If there is no alternative, the program comes to an ...

• 1918, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind

  ... Of (fact m or fact n) is equivalent to the assertion of the alternative fact (m or n). In speaking Of the alternative (m or n) as representing a fact, we are recognising the principle that any characterisation of a fact may be 144 w. E. JOHNSON: I.