Sentence examples for assertions of truth from inspiring English sources
A responsive government must ensure that its assertions of truth are constantly and critically reviewed in public.
He is seen at his happiest in such essays as "On Running After One's Hat" (1908) and "A Defence of Nonsense" (1901), in which he says that nonsense and faith are "the two supreme symbolic assertions of truth" and "to draw out the soul of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook".
There is, however, a more moderate form of postmodernism worth keeping, which emphasizes the extreme complexity and context sensitivity of cultural systems and questions whether assertions of truth in any particular culture, including scientific culture, are in fact part of the culture's ideology.
The challenge for the church is to translate the crumbling edifice of traditional Christian belief into a valid assertion of truth about life that can stand comparison with the equally valid truths and wisdom drawn from scientific perception and deduction.
Thus, for you to provide cannabis to the seriously ill is not just an act of compassion, but also an assertion of truth, albeit not one a Federal Drug Enforcement Agent would find persuasive.
You can already hear the objection to the assertion of truth: "Who is to say who is right?" What Russian state spin demonstrates is that, by dispensing with what we used to be comfortable calling the truth, we are left with nothing but sheer power.
Literary tastes, too, have veered away from assertions of absolute truth.
It is about strong, no-nonsense declarative assertions of the truth as it actually is.
While it had not contained a positive assertion of their truth, there was no suggestion that there was reason to doubt their veracity.
Note the careful wording of Ipso's ruling: while the Star's version of the magazine's claims "had not contained a positive assertion of their truth, there was no suggestion that there was reason to doubt their veracity".
