Credibility of the European Commission. The Guardian, 3 January 2017 The president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, spent years in his previous role as Luxembourg’s prime minister secretly blocking EU efforts to tackle tax avoidance by multinational corporations, leaked …
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Doctrine: Selection of facts and meaning of facts combined In January 2015 two hooded men enter the editor room of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. They take their Kalashnikovs and kill ten of the present journalists in little more …
Conjecture 22: Accepted meanings feed on sustaining facts Let’s take a further look at this particular point of being or not ‘being something’. Especially the fact that one apparently ‘is Moroccan’ is a fact that has been given a special …
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Conjecture 21: Selection of facts is the first step towards meaning Let’s first of all take a look at the selection of facts the police made. One could have said just about anything other than that the 27 year old …
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Conjecture 20: A fact is what everyone believes to be a fact Feiten, of dit nu de Slag bij Nieuwpoort of het verstandige fruit of de reputatie van Gerrit Zalm betreft, zijn nauwelijks afhankelijk van empirische waarneming, maar wel van …
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Conjecture 19: Facts are far too complicated for us regular folks to understand Ervan uitgaande dat taalgebruikers een werkarchiefje in hun geheugen hebben om zich over het geheel genomen te redden, kan er niet vanuit gegaan worden, dat wij grondige …
Principle 7: Chains of good authority Als men er oog voor krijgt, ziet men de gezagsketens overal. Wanneer in 2009 DSB (Dirk Scheringa Beheer) Bank valt, blijken veel spaarders op goed gezag te hebben aangenomen dat het wel een betrouwbare …
Principle 1: feiten worden aangenomen zonder enige vorm van bewijs Zagen wij eerder al dat wij niet kunnen waarnemen als ons niet verteld is wat er waar te nemen is, àls wij dan eenmaal waarnemen, dan nemen wij feiten aan, …
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Principle 1: Meaning doesn’t have to consist of facts Apples as vitamin bombs, apples as ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ (see Conjecture 13). It remains to be seen if all facts on apples are all that indisputable. …