"Well that is true, it seems as though the ball hit my hand," said Fabiano.
Acting as though that's true helps me make up for lost time.
We certainly don't live our lives as though that's true, and we shouldn't allow ourselves to imagine it's true in retrospect.
And they usually act as if that was true, even though I'm sure they are actually very kind to their grandchildren.
All that was true, though, as of last year, and the joke really was on the viewers.
That's true in Annihilation as well, though there's less argument here and more brooding.
City, county and state governments are already behaving as though this is true, investing in preparing for climate change but doing so under different labels.
Totalitarian rule, Arendt argued, is predicated on the assumption that proving that a thing is true is less effective than acting as though it were true.
In the theoretical kind we suppose the thing sought as being and as being true, and then we pass through its concomitants [akolouthôn] in order, as though they were true and existent by hypothesis, to something admitted; then, if that which is admitted be true, the thing sought is true, too, and the proof will be the reverse of analysis.
Although his reflections were inconclusive, Nozick hit on a seductive maxim: first, imagine what form of immortality would be best; then live your life right now as though it were true.
Acting upon a proposition is behaving as though it were true.
