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  • Even more accurately, if i went out on the street in front of my house and left 100 copies of that poem on the fence for anyone to take and then went back in side, there is no way i could feasibly demand the poems back post-fact.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • The Neo-Platonic conception is clearly a post-fact rationalisation of the misdemeanour/error crimes, an attempt to abstract these into a theory of mores as functional ethics.

    A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

  • Since the function of conception and perception are contradictory (one pre -, the other post-fact) the author would mitigate her idea by applying subjective judgment to it.

    Paragraphs On Conceptual Writing : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • If this is correct as a general principle, how could it be remedied, particularly at the post-fact finding appellate level?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Koh, No! 2009

  • The Neo-Platonic conception is clearly a post-fact rationalisation of the misdemeanour/error crimes, an attempt to abstract these into a theory of mores as functional ethics.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • The notion that theories take precedence over facts is now a truism of a postmodern, post-fact, true-spin/values world.

    Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another? 2009

  • Even more accurately, if i went out on the street in front of my house and left 100 copies of that poem on the fence for anyone to take and then went back in side, there is no way i could feasibly demand the poems back post-fact.

    ccau staff talk a lot: part 1 2007

  • If this is correct as a general principle, how could it be remedied, particularly at the post-fact finding appellate level?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Koh, No! 2009

  • Most of those post-fact activities are influenced by our culture, and can be critiqued in the same way as other cultural constructions.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Karen Burnham 2008

  • "I'd heard a homicide detective might have been an inadvertent witness, post-fact, to the most recent Dangler job," he said.

    Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

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