This process differentiates science from other ways of knowing for which the power, authority, ideology, or persuasiveness of the person making the claim determines its truth.
Frege (1892/1952) offered a highly systematic conception of reference on which reference is assigned to every constituent of a sentence that is relevant to determining its truth-value.
Otherwise, again, we would not know where to look to determine its falsity, or truth, for that matter.
What we're hearing now -- and we have zero means of determining whether its truth or self-protective spin -- is that the hospital was not going to discipline her.
An education system that is prepared to examine itself and determine the truth of its readiness and ability to teach Aboriginal students is courageous and innovative, and can achieve two outcomes.
It's always difficult to determine the truth behind what happened...
A company called Brain Fingerprinting claims, on its website, that recording electrical signals from the brain can "determine the truth regarding a crime, terrorist activities or terrorist training by detecting information stored in the brain".
In particular, note that degrees of truth are usually considered to be truth functional (the truth value of a compound statement such as A∧B is a function of the truth values of its constituent statements A, B; that is, the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of A∧B).
"It is my most sincere desire," he continued, "to determine the truth about what happened".
