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The phrase "discern the truth" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It means to understand or perceive what is true or real. You can use it in situations where you are unsure about the validity of a statement or situation and want to carefully evaluate it to determine the truth. Example: In a court setting, the jury's responsibility is to listen to all the evidence presented and discern the truth of the matter before reaching a verdict.
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There's an effort to discern the truth of the matter, because all whitenesses are not equal".
This may work, but putting on and maintaining a mask is strenuous and perceptive members will discern the truth.
This fact usually gets lost in the popular press, and I only hope your readers can discern the truth from the myth.Ellen C. SchwartzAnn Arbor, Michigan .
Judges could not, and should not, seek to discern the truth about a marriage from the recriminations that followed a break-up.
The independent counsel makes no effort to discern the truth of much of the gossip and the House Judiciary Committee released much of the material unedited.
Juries are the hallmark of our legal system and they deserve far more credit than they are given to discern the truth through the fog of competing expert testimony.
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Fortunately, teenagers are very good at discerning the truth behind anti-Cuba propaganda.
He tackles everything from news coverage to online dating, while offering practical tools for discerning the truth online.
Scott Rudin, one of the film's producers, said that in fact, the filmmakers worked hard at discerning the truth in conflicting versions of events and telling it straight.
He meant it as praise, but the trouble with that position — and the deepest of all the troubles disturbing the waters of "Walden" — is that it assumes that Thoreau had some better way of discerning the truth than other people did.
Medieval philosophers also adopted Aristotle's distinction between practical intellect, which discerns what to do, and speculative intellect, which discerns the truth about the way things are.
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