This limiting approach has been taken in recognition that '(t)he basic purpose of a trial is the determination of truth,' Tehan v. United States ex rel.
Since thoughts can be compared with one another, he turns to them for a determination of truth, though it is not clear how this move can avoid idealism.
This indicates that the reference of a proper name its contribution to the determination of truth conditions of sentences in which it occurs is the object for which that name stands.
The very procedure used in a colloquy involved rhetorical discourse, and the end product was not a logical determination of truth but an informal consensus among the participants involving a judgment about probable truth.
These lectures which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity.
Of these two conditions, the logician as such is concerned only with the first; the second, the determination of the truth or falsity of the premises, is the task of some special discipline or of common observation appropriate to the subject matter of the argument.
Each formula of LPCR specifies an algorithm for its evaluation, that is, for the determination of its truth value (if possible).
Since a principal aim of such undertakings is the determination of the truth, or the facts of the case, such undertakings are also plausibly understood as (at least partly) epistemological in nature.
What examples like (12) are often taken to show is that the reference of an expression must be relativized, not just to a context of utterance, but also to a circumstance of evaluation roughly, the possible state of the world relevant to the determination of the truth or falsity of the sentence.
