Sentence examples for candidate for truth from inspiring English sources

The first is to clarify the dictum in such a way that it is both interesting and a plausible candidate for truth.

For instance, Horgan and Potrč (2000: 50–51) offer an indirect correspondence theory of truth, declaring talk of a plurality of discrete objects apt for tracking "lumps" and "congealings" of the blobject, saying that "such tracking would constitute an indirect kind of language/world correspondence" which "would be a very plausible candidate for truth" (2000: 50–1).

Traditionally, instrumentalists maintain that terms for unobservables, by themselves, have no meaning; construed literally, statements involving them are not even candidates for truth or falsity.

Empiricists claim that sensation, which in itself has no cognitive content, is the source of all beliefs, which essentially have cognitive content which are by their very nature candidates for truth or falsity.

The last point suggests that only a complex entity that 'contains' Socrates as well as the property of being wise is a candidate for the truth-maker role.

Romney is the perfect candidate for the truth-free zone where politics and real life intersect.

Standard candidates for such truth makers are fundamental laws of nature or perhaps fundamental physical/chemical processes or mechanisms.

Though this principle will deliver the biconditional "x is true iff something makes x true" (since "something makes x true" trivially implies "x is true"), this does not yield a promising candidate for a definition of truth: defining truth in terms of truthmaking would appear to be circular.

But there are other candidates for contingent truths that are a priori knowable and justifiable.

Why are facts the best candidates for the truth-maker role?

Indeed, many philosophers take them to be plausible candidates for moral truths, grasped through reflection that reveals good reasons for believing them, which is therefore what explains our moral beliefs and behavior in these cases.