factual claims
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffactualandclaim
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factual
adjective
uk/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/us/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
using or consisting ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk/kleɪm/us/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition offactualandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffactual claims
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Scientists generally understood that to describe something like a voluntary movement as represented in the brain is to make afactualclaim.
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It is afactualclaimabout the way in which our cognition happens to be structured, not an unrestricted modal claim arrived at by some sort of task-analysis.
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All these acts of structuring imply factual claims about our life-experiences, events, our lives, and the nature of reality.
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This way of structuring implies factual claims about the birth of her child, but also about her life and the nature of the world.
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There are many non-obvious factual claims with no reference to a source.
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Whether punishments have deterrent effects is a question of contingent fact, and factual claims about them are not implicit in the utilitarian standard.
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There are also various factual claims in this book that might be considered controversial.
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The first is a structuring function - which implies factual claims about the nature of reality.
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Liberalism requires that coercive laws enjoy public justification and thus that such laws should be supported by widely shared moral and factual claims.
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Scientific findings may weaken or undo her belief in the factual claims made by her religion.
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One can make factual claims in poetry.
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The factual claims of many of the museum's exhibits strain credibility, provoking an array of interpretations from commentators.
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Arguments should be supported by appropriate and reasonably accurate factual claims.
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Doing so is improper, because a demurrer assumes that all of the complaint's factual claims are true.
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Lawson characterised the programme's opponents as being quick to leap to ad hominem attacks about the director's qualifications and political affiliations rather than the merits of his factual claims.
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