And, she adds, there is substantial truth in the cliché that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
"The international spotlight on the case in fact resulted in the investigation undergoing a sudden acceleration, that, in the frantic search for one or more guilty parties to consign to international public opinion, certainly didn't help the search for substantial truth," the judges wrote.
Roughly put, non-cognitivists think that moral statements have no substantial truth conditions.
Simply put this thesis denies that predicative moral sentences express propositions or have substantial truth conditions.
I think we can be really excited that there is some substantial truth here, some substantial data coming forward and something that we can really be hopeful about".
Deflationism about truth replaces a concern for a substantial theory of truth with a concern about which sentences, or utterances, are deemed to be truth-apt.
For example correspondence theories which claim that truth involves a real relation between truth-bearers and reality are often cited as paradigm cases of a substantial theory of truth.
And it may even have a substantial element of truth to it".
He was not an attractive witness, although ultimately I conclude that his evidence did contain a substantial kernel of truth, once the elaboration is removed.
But as Rodney — a voracious reader unafraid to claim Hemingway as his totem — declares, "Ideas don't become clichéd because they're false, but because they're true, or at least contain a substantial part of truth".
This question is pressing for Neale's account, since there will be a substantial difference in the truth conditions of a pronoun-containing sentence depending on whether the pronoun receives a numberless or Russellian interpretation.
