Sentence examples for approximation of truth from inspiring English sources

If we take the time for respectful discourse, information and opinion can be shared, and who knows, maybe even some approximation of truth can be found.

"Science has its weaknesses and it doesn't have a stranglehold on the truth, but it has a way of approaching technical issues that is a closer approximation of truth than any other method we have".

Talk of approximate truth is often invoked in this context, and has produced a significant amount of often highly technical work, conceptualizing the approximation of truth as something that can be quantified, such that judgments of relative approximate truth (of one proposition or theory in comparison to another) can be formalized and given precise definitions.

Science is not truth; it's an approximation of truth.

And the approximation of truth, the presentation is everything.

As Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has made clear, however, any official offering such public testimony can at least endeavor to speak in "the least untruthful manner" possible; that is, in the nearest approximation of truth that remains unclassified in the post-9/11 era.

As always, getting at the truth - or even an approximation of the truth - proved impossible.

Through his fiction Mr. Rutherfurd can arrive at an imaginative approximation of the truth.

The most we can hope for is a reasonable approximation of the truth.

The standard model may be ugly, but it works, so presumably it is at least an approximation of the truth.

In the end, Ball believes, "that's a closer approximation of the truth of experience, what it's like to live, than a single, supposedly objective account".