verifiability

• “On a side note, that's precisely why I fear wiki-mentality and its brainless notions of 'verifiability'.”

  Latin 'pulcher': Is it really an Etruscan loan?

• “Consider, in reference to Marc Aronson's questioning of verifiability of ethnic bona fides, the case of brilliant and popular pianist Keith Jarrett.”

  Who Can Win What?

• “What has happened is that we have gone from a system which stressed objectivity and verifiability to a system in which the market price of an asset, under conditions of economic stress and financial dislocation, must be derived using a significant amount of judgment.”

  Sears Chairman Unleashes 15-Page Manifesto About Um, Everything - The Consumerist

• “You may have perfectly valid reasons to doubt an * individual* conclusion based on (for example) erosion records, continental drift, fossil records, ice core sampling, carbon dating, and so on — but if all of the measurements agree well, then that is (by definition) the best verifiability that science has to offer …”

  Why scientists are under-represented in politics. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

• “The use of publicly available financial data is important for consistency, transparency and verifiability.”

  The Huffington Post: Allen D. Hertzke: Religious Advocacy: It’s Not All About Congressional Activity

• “The first study, by the National Academy of Sciences, will analyze the United States 'ability to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal without testing and assess the treaty's verifiability.”

  The Huffington Post: Joe Cirincione: Obama's Nuclear Offensive

• “The Government of the United States and the Government of Japan call upon states that hold nuclear weapons to respect the principles of transparency, verifiability and irreversibility in the process of nuclear disarmament.”

  Heather Hurlburt: Wall Street Journal on Nukes: Ten Impossible Things Before Breakfast

• “Right now, there's nothing that provides any verifiability of where a virtual machine lives," Sakac says.”

  IDG: EMC targets FISMA compliance in cloud networks

• “Missing from the calculus (along with good sense, credibility, and verifiability) is any explanation of why the logic of this scenario will automatically result in Obama deploying a nuke, and what exactly would be gained by him doing so except (by implication) making the U.S. look like hypocrites at the negotiating table.”

  The Huffington Post: Black Gold -- the Lifeblood of War

• “But the verifiability was never of much interest, since it became more important to insist on the historical rights of Jews to the land, and to render inadmissible any talk of native inhabitants, any narrative of Palestinian life.”

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