Sentence examples for ascertain truth from inspiring English sources
The object of the Apostles' discussions was to ascertain Truth about the world, and these brilliant undergraduates — who became fast friends — really believed they could do that.
This silly causal equation between what a few crazy Muslims do and what is Islam has become the bread and butter methodology of the new atheists -- despite their insistence that science and rationality is the only valid means to ascertain truth.
During the recording of the album, she spoke of the combined effects that news corporations and Google have on news and data collection, while stressing the need for alternative news sources that she felt her son's generation would need to ascertain truth.
This conceptual linking of methods of abstraction to ascertain truth and progressive politics is reminiscent of the radical politics of early logical positivists like Otto Neurath.
The techniques invoked in the name of "evidence-based" decision-making require a positivistic reliance on "the evidence" in its epistemological promise to ascertain truth or certainty by examination of the evidence.
This is a wiser rule than the automatic rule announced by the Court, which requires courts and juries to disregard voluntary admissions which they might well find to be the best possible evidence in discharging their responsibility for ascertaining truth.
Privileges should be recognized "only to the very limited extent that permitting a refusal to testify or excluding relevant evidence has a public good transcending the normally predominant principle of utilizing all rational means for ascertaining truth". Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 50 (1980) (citations omitted).
Crane, like James, posits the absence of God in any traditional sense of a supreme being and therefore the uncertainty of ascertaining truth.
If we believe the author(s) were concerned with the way things are in the world, we will employ interpretive methods to ascertain the truth of the claims made, namely, those methods concerned with propositional truth: logical and linguistic analysis, especially in the Anglophone tradition, and/or hermeneutics or phenomenology among continental philosophers.
Our commitment to do what is possible to ascertain the truth and possible responsibilities remains unchanged.
