Therefore, the propriety of effecting law on the basis of a single religious truth is in question and can only exclude the rightful expression of others' views and practices.
This material provided the basis of a course on truth makers I gave in Cambridge, Michaelmas 2012.
Since the end of the cold war, mainstream centre-left and centre-right politics has been conducted on the basis of a few incontrovertible truths: international action and globalisation will lead to wealthier and more productive societies; free markets and open trade borders and lift people out of poverty; individual rights are sacrosanct and must be protected.
Philo's suggestion is remarkable in that it deviates noticeably from the ordinary language understanding of conditional sentences and requires abstraction on the basis of a concept of truth-functionality.
In any interrogation, you've got to have a basis of truth to judge whether someone's telling the truth.
If the makers of a message, for example, can endure debate, if they are prepared to counter a rebuttal, and if their position has a basis of truth, then communications can be used not simply to garner good tidings, but to re-gear a market's conversation and the buying behavior that results from a spirited dialog.
This then serves as the basis of a sceptical argument regarding the truth of any particular theory the realist may wish to endorse.
On this narrower understanding, paradigm examples of what I can know on the basis of a priori justification are conceptual truths (such as "All bachelors are unmarried"), and truths of mathematics, geometry and logic.
Experts in the field held that children's accounts of abuse tended to have a basis of truth because they had no reason to invent such events.
This Jain ideal of profoundly influenced Mahatma Gandhi; through his friendship with the Jain scholar Shrimad Rajchandra, it formed a basis of his satyagraha (truth struggle) against colonial rule and caused him to rethink many aspects of contemporary Hindu practices.
