The phrase "a thing of truth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is genuine, honest, or reflects reality.
Example: "In a world full of deception, her words were a thing of truth that resonated deeply with everyone."
Alternatives: "a matter of fact" or "a piece of reality".
When a smile can be forged from anguish, then it's a thing of beauty and truth.
But such short-cut paths to truth were a thing of the future in 1950.
The Londoner explains why she will never reach the status of her childhood hero Wonder Woman – and it's not just because there is no such thing as a "lasso of truth".
It would be a theatre without actors; it would be plays without playwrights; it would be reporting without summary and opinion; it would be the ability to look in on people's lives at crucial times, from which you could deduce certain things and see a kind of truth that can only be gotten by personal experience.
Applied to the raven hypothesis, this means that, given a thing named "c", the truth of "Rc" and "Bc" confirms it; the truth of "Rc" and "¬Bc" disconfirms it; and the truth of "¬Rc" neither confirms nor disconfirms it, but remains evidentially neutral, regardless of the truth value of "Bc".
"Even though I talk about subject matter being important, the most important thing is feeling... a feeling of truth.
The conclusion is the same: "We are, at all events, aware that such poetry mustn't be taken seriously as a serious thing laying hold of truth, but that the man who hears it must be careful, fearing for the regime in himself, and must hold what we have said about poetry" (608a6-b2).
Pragmatism emerges in James's book as six things: a philosophical temperament, a theory of truth, a theory of meaning, a holistic account of knowledge, a metaphysical view, and a method of resolving philosophical disputes.
Someone stands up, says a few things... without a single shred of truth.
They knew I twisted and condensed some things but there was still a kind of truth they can accept.
