One morning, Smith, who was trying to sort out the claims of truth that each denomination put forward, went into the woods to pray for guidance.
Publications, posters, abstracts, and--increasingly--presentations represent scientists' claims of truth to the scientific community.
In so doing, it can link empirical and interpretive social science to normative claims of truth, morality and justice, traditionally the purview of philosophy.
The suspicion of girth, of chat, of forms of embellishment, of claims to truth, of brandished personality makes Paterson different from the gregarious poet he once was and different from his close contemporaries.
As part of this concern, theology's task is to explain reasonably, in view of historical relativism, the absolute claim of the truth that it represents.
Philosophers concerned to maintain the exclusivity of their claim to truth have dismissed the arts as poor pretenders to the title of purveyors of truth.
The core claim here is that fallibilism is different from relativism, suggesting that it is possible to distinguish between truth and the context of justification of claims to truth.
He therefore believed that religious language is confessional – a confession of what someone feels and believes – rather than consisting of claims to truth.
Rather, philosophers must satisfy themselves with the "transcendence from within" given with the context-transcending force of claims to truth and moral rightness.
If claims of analytic truth at best reinforce (1), then appeal to such truths cannot help the realist in her task.
