Sentence examples for demand for truth from inspiring English sources
Now he argues the 1968-ers' demand for truth was only partial.
But unless we already have independent reasons for recognising the demand for truth makers, catching cheaters cannot provide a motivation for positing them.
In his final completed book, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (2002), Williams identifies the two basic values of truth as accuracy and sincerity, and tries to address the gulf between the demand for truth and the doubt that any such thing exists.
But Kenya stands out as a country where the grass-roots demand for truth-telling (for example after the bloodshed of 2008) is strong.Sometimes quite a lot of time has to pass before real truth-telling starts.
So acceding to the demand for truth-makers doesn't tell us what's wrong with idealism (Daly 2005: 95 7).
As Lewis points out, this demand for truth-makers represented an overreaction to what was undoubtedly a flaw in phenomenalism (1992: 217).
It's a further flaw of Martin and Armstrong's reasoning that even if we accede to the demand for truth-makers it doesn't follow that even idealism is ruled out.
According to Armstrong if we forsake the demand for truth-makers we thereby challenge "the realistic insight that there is a world that exists independently of our thoughts and statements, making the latter true or false" (1997: 128).
So if we're to hang onto Hume's denial of necessary connexions, we'd better give up the demand for truth-makers for negative and general truths, i.e., maximalism (Lewis 1992: 205, 2001: 610 11).
