Sentence examples for a statement may be true from inspiring English sources

Essentially the same idea has been taken up earlier by Dummett (1959) in his influential paper, where he asks "what point there may be in distinguishing between different ways in which a statement may be true or between different ways in which it may be false, or, as we might say, between degrees of truth and falsity" (Dummett 1959, 153).

While this statement may be true (as such factors do play a role in ecological systems), it is not proven by the proposed study.

That statement may be true as is stands, but it certainly is misleading.

Ah, the unintended subtext: the statement may be true of David, but it couldn't be less true of the actor who plays David, Buck Henry.

Yet any such statement may be true in virtue of each of us planning an individual visit, and does not imply anything collective about our intention.

Since the two similarity relations in question are distinct the first modal statement may be true and the second false even if I am identical with the sum of stages in question.

Though I believe this statement may be true for some people, I was determined not to allow it to be true for me.

That statement may be true, it probably is true at least some of the time, but it is not a finding or a reasonable interpretation of this study, and there is nothing in this study to support it.

The latter statement may be true if hybrids are unviable or infertile, but not if hybrids generate self-propagating progenies through parthenogenesis, hybridogenesis or gynogenesis (Kraus 1995; Christiansen and Reyer 2009).

This statement may be true, even if you don't agree with her actions.

In a similar vein, the realist as characterized by the English philosopher Michael Dummett holds that statements may be true (or false) independently of any possibility, even in principle, of their being recognized as such.