The phrase "claim truth" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing the assertion of a fact or belief as true.
Example: "In his argument, he attempted to claim truth in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary."
Alternatives: "assert truth" or "declare truth."
"How many times can you cry and claim truth onstage?
Can this strange boy with a mysterious smile really claim truth?
  MIDGETTE NEW YORK VIRTUOSO SINGERS A chamber chorus with the word virtuoso in its name might seem over-confident, but the New York Virtuoso Singers can claim truth in advertising.
Jay Carney, the new communications director for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., was, until late last year, the Washington bureau chief at Time magazine, where he covered the campaign and, coincidentally, was a co-author of an article in September titled, "McCain's Bias Claim: Truth or Tactic?" Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the leading candidate for surgeon general, is CNN's chief medical correspondent.
In an age of daunting, monumental psychobiography, this is where a lifelong intellectual bandit-trickster like Bellow can stake his claim: truth comes not through piling up fact and piling on one's subject in a hefty 700 pages but via the selective imagination and burnished sentences of an accomplished novelist.
The ideas represented claim truth to nature (Molyneaux 1997, p 2).
If the most celebrated of "docudramas", Spielberg's Schindler's List, could go to lengths to authenticate its storyline, why should not any film claiming truth to history?
Mason & Dixon (1997) subverts the American Enlightenment's metric confidence ("Who claims Truth, Truth abandons," as its narrator the Rev Cherrycoke quips), mobilising a menagerie of singular humans and even odder animals.
For instance, Lynch suggests that for ordinary claims about material objects, truth might be realized by a correspondence property (which he links to representational views), while for moral claims truth might be manifest by an assertibility property along more anti-realist lines.
This latter view would make moral claims truth-evaluable, and Ayer's moral emotivism denied that they were so evaluable.
Husserl's argument boils down to this: 'It is contradictory to claim that truth is not absolute because truth is absolute' (Føllesdal 1958, 37).
