Inspector Campbell drew his papers towards him and gave Father the ascertainable facts in so far as they had been ascertained.
At that point, Morgan says, Baptiste vanishes from the realm of ascertainable fact.
It was when he came to less readily ascertainable facts, to statements that could never be verified at all, that he sensed the doubt, the something more than wonder.
Her clear, scientific stamp of mind searched for ascertainable facts, and on these she built up her philosophy of life and of the death that ends it.
There is a gulf between them, and there is a gulf between the ascertainable facts of an artist's career and the private world in which his art takes shape.
Economics as science is about "ascertainable facts" of the positive as distinct from normative (ethical) judgments on economic policy.
But a $4 billion settlement in advance of any proof of harm makes the courts look a little hasty, a trifle contemptuous of ascertainable scientific fact.
In his letter to Die Burger, Mr. Platter described his remarks as "plainly ascertainable historical facts which make up the story of wine in South Africa."
Leveson says that was an ascertainable fact, published in court rulings, and MacKenzie "got it wrong".
She met vague small talk with ruthless statements of ascertainable fact and well-worn maxims with a tart demand for evidence.