So, OK. We tell and retell the true and false legends of Knute Rockne and winning one for the Gipper and all that, but we don't really mind.
But a popular pastime is to spread news and rumours, both true and false, that challenge the official script of government officials and state-propaganda organs.
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false.
Rather than the infinite choices of fuzzy logic, or the two in binary logic, this would have options for false, true, sort of true, sort of false, and exactly half-way.
"America will reap the same if the news is true and false, " said one posting on the website.
They argued in the original High Court case that the government's assessment of the bank's true worth was false and almost guaranteed that they would end up with nothing.
The ratio of true positives to false positives and false negatives?
By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.
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True or false and if anyone knows, she should, say cynics this is news to those who have been protesting at public-sector wage cuts of up to 25%, and months of delay in payment.
The subterfuge of using different brokerage firms and multiple customer accounts is to give the false impression of increased market interest and depth, and to hide the true identities of the manipulators.
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If Miss Lewinsky's taped allegations turn out to be true, and Mr Clinton's denials false, it is hard to imagine Mr Clinton surviving.
I've incorporated is - be true to your teeth and they will not be false to you.
But replacing false ideas with true ones is precisely what transformative figures do, and certainly what Rand, who firmly believed in the power of reason and truth, was hoping to do.
"The notion of a 'graveyard of empires' is actually a false extrapolation from something that is true -- that there is tactical and strategic difficulty, " Porter says.
And when this information, or reports, whether true or false, surface on the front page of newspapers, that makes the job of folks on the front lines tougher and it makes my job tougher -- which is why since I've been in office, my attitude has been zero tolerance for these kinds of leaks and speculation.
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The staffers research and evaluate the arguments presented by political leaders and organizations, and they post their conclusions on whether the statements are true are false.
In England, on the other hand, the burden is in exactly the opposite direction: the offending speech is presumed to be false, and it is up to the defendant to prove that it is in fact true.
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Many of the claims made for the digital revolution have turned out to be false, and the reason is almost invariably that their makers have failed to understand the true complexity of the world in which the revolution is taking place.
False association of the crony capitalism practiced under the dictator there (and many other places) with a true market economy is causing the climate for real entrepreneurs to grow chilly in Cairo.
Have you ever known someone who wanted something to be true so badly that they started to adopt positions and manufacture circumstances to support their own false reality?
The suit alleges that Oliviero Toscani, an Italian, and Ken Shulman gained entry to the prison under false pretences, pretending to be journalists to hide the true purpose of the campaign.
Fourteen, there is substantial and credible evidence that the president may have engaged in witness tampering by coaching perspective witnesses and by narrating elaborate detailed false accounts of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky as if those stories were true, intending that those witnesses believe the story and testify to it before a grand jury.
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The Clintons were then, and are now, absolute masters at saying something that is either true, or impossible to prove false when dissected down.
Those who correctly identified this statement as true support Gov. Romney over President Obama 53-35, and those who thought it was false support President Obama 63-27.
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"We were given false assurances by Jeffrey Archer and as soon as we have had an allegation which has been substantiated and proved to be true we have acted quickly and correctly, " he told reporters outside Conservative Central Office.
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