This desire for accuracy does not bar a paper from publishing, for example, a rumor of the assassination of the German Crown Prince, but it does demand that the report be published only as an unverified rumor.
And that the best papers have learned this is proved by the fact that they no longer tolerate inaccuracy of statement or unverified information in their columns.
The West distrusts theunverified and unguided intuitive judgment.
We have learned to doubt intuitions unverifiedby investigation and experimental evidence.
To the best of his ability, the Oriental at least makes sure that he is administering genuine tiger-bone; he does not rely on the unverified word of his dealer alone.
The explanation is, of course, that many of these textbooks are mere compilations containing false statements, unproved theories, and unverified clinical evidence representing the guesswork of ancient uncritical observers.
If the mathematical expression of our ideas leads to equations which cannot be integrated, the working hypothesis will either have to be verified some other way, or else relegated to the great repository of unverified speculations.
It reveals the nature of fallacies, and refuses to avail itself of unverified assumptions.
The last section lists unverified subjects attributed to Jackson in a number of museums but which have been lost through war or other causes, and doubtful titles found in Nagler and Le Blanc.
Not being verified, then, this theory is not yet science, but an unverified mental hypothesis, that is, metaphysics.
With a show of science, they are unscientific, being a mere collection of unverified hypotheses.
Again, science must not pile one unverified hypothesis upon another unverified hypothesis till her edifice rivals the Tower of Babel.
Nay, he may even use the unverifiedhypotheses and systematic conceptions(514) of physical science for what they are worth in helping him to determine his general world-view.
So large a part of this evidence is contaminated by prepossessions, and a yet larger part is so unverified in any scientific sense, that for purposes of sound inquiry it is worthless.
Their own rigidly defined scholastic creed, with all its unverified hypotheses, rested as securely as ever, in their view, on the absolute inspiration of the Vulgate version of the Bible: witness the letter of Dorpius.
Decidedly, an enemy of the unverifiedassumptions of democracy ought to be on his guard against the unverified assumptions of pedantocracy.
He will swallow an undated, unlocalised legend of Coleridge, reaching Coleridge on the testimony of rumour, and told at least twenty years after the unverified occurrences.
It is hardly necessary to remind the modern reader that the Sardanapalus of history is an unverified if not an unverifiable personage.
It records an unverified impression on the part of the duchess's granddaughter, that the MS.
Its weak links are theunverified assumptions of an initial uniform temperature and a constant diffusivity.
The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the danger to progress of accepting an unverifiedassumption justify the demand for demonstrative evidence.
The layman's distrust of the unverified hypothesis is in the main wholesome.
This is scarcely consistent with the loose, unverified accusations as to the shortcomings of railway companies.
Very different from this loose, unverified deprecation is the opinion of those foreign observers who have carefully examined the question.
If the 10 species listed as of "unverified occurrence," it seems highly likely that as many as eight will be found to occur, or occurred within historic time, in Harding County.