Sentence examples for distinguishing truth from inspiring English sources

The fMRI's accuracy rate for distinguishing truth from lies was seventy-seven per cent.

At his last job, running the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn had so much trouble distinguishing truth from fiction that, according to the _Times, _his subordinates created a category called "Flynn facts".

Yet it is vital that the American public educates itself into distinguishing truth from fiction on such issues as global warming, and possible solutions to our economic malaise if we are to deal realistically with the problems that confront us.

Heeding Arnauld's warning, Descartes added a disclaimer to the Synopsis of the Meditations: "But here it should be noted in passing that I do not deal at all with sin, i.e. the error which is committed in pursuing good and evil, but only with the error that occurs in distinguishing truth and falsehood" (AT VII 15/CSM II 11).

How does one distinguish truth from fiction, demagoguery from serious argument?

"They know that politicians may not be telling them the truth, they lack the capacity to distinguish truth from falsehood".

He is a thinker who looks through the eye of his camera to distinguish truth from reality.

In academic studies, subjects asked to distinguish truth from lies answer correctly, on average, fifty-four per cent of the time.

But children have to start learning to distinguish truth from spin at some point, and a total ban would be difficult to enforce.

Scooter's attempt to distinguish truth from reality, and the dull family secret he finally uncovers, are the stuff of undergraduate philosophizing and creaky drama.

The underlying thought of the Academy during its Skeptical phase is that, because there is no way to distinguish truth from falsity, we must refrain from believing anything at all.