Sentence examples for connection to truth from inspiring English sources

Do photographs provide our most immediate connection to truth, or do they confuse, mislead, or tell outright lies?

By Ian Crouch November 22, 2010 Do photographs provide our most immediate connection to truth, or do they confuse, mislead, or tell outright lies?

Upon checking the numbers, they had no connection to truth or reality.

Romney's repeated lies on issue after issue and his brazen willingness to change his position fundamentally seemingly by the day, will be easier to swallow from a political party whose core constituents are already disposed toward a much more tenuous connection to truth and reality.

This is important because if the range of epistemic goals that Kvanvig identified were all truth-related, then it would prompt the natural response that such goals are valuable only because of their connection to the truth, and hence not fundamental epistemic goals at all.

Shue argues that Chinese rulers historically have derived their legitimacy from a claim to possess an exclusive connection to the "Truth".

They tweet and blog in the most eye-wateringly aggressive tone and often, like Bianca Jagger, they do so without even the slightest connection to the truth.

And I am heartened by their model of advocacy that both understands and integrates community-based support and the power of women to heal through direct connection to the truth.

Causal Condition: X has knowledge of P only if X bears a causal connection to the truth-maker of P. If one accepts Realism and Causal Condition, then there is a prima facie question: How can we ever know anything about metaphysical modality if we do not bear a causal connection to the truth-makers of modal statements?

Even if it is granted that crude versions of our concepts of fairness or guilt originated through evolutionary processes in our hominin ancestors, independently of any connection to moral truths, it remains possible that through cultural evolution we have developed refined conceptions of fairness or guilt that can be employed in epistemically respectable ways (FitzPatrick 2014a).

Instead of portraying investors as idealized rational beings who always act in their own best interests — often the case in standard financial economics — behavioral economics casts them as "normal" people who chase biases that have little connection to the statistical truth or the right thing to do.