The contrast of truth-telling and white lies crops up in a series of scenes that add up to a surprising twist on ethics, and among the many well-calibrated performances Holofcener elicits, Rebecca Hall's, as a bright young woman in a rut, channels the reflective diffidence of early Molly Ringwald (and I mean that as a high compliment).
Minimalist theories are often presented by contrast with theories of truth according to which truth is some sort of "substantial" relation or property.
Alternatively non-cognitivists might give up formulations of their favored contrast in terms of truth and truth-aptness and employ robust notions of representation or propertyhood.
By contrast, the percentage of truth and lie responses did not differ across groups in the Unfavourable Reality (binomial test, No-Presence: Truth/Lie, p = .12; Presence: Truth/Lie, p = .12) (Table 1, third and fourth row).
Although the coherence and correspondence theories are fundamentally opposed in this way, they both present (in contrast to deflationary theories of truth) a substantive conception of truth.
In sharp contrast, the truth of propositions concerning matters of fact depends on the way the world is.
The method of reflective equilibrium has been advocated as a coherence account of justification (as contrasted with an account of truth) in several areas of inquiry,including inductive and deductive logic as well as ethics and political philosophy.
The contrast with the correspondence theory of truth is clear.
Modal logic, by contrast, is concerned with different "modes" of truth — possibility, impossibility, necessity and the like — and the words that convey them.
In fact, they often contrast morality and science with respect to issues of truth and justification.
Philosophers, by contrast, are presented as committed to the pursuit of truth that is already "out there," independently of the mind and the world of becoming.
