Sentence examples for elementary truths from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hazard's experiences with a florida cracker who refuses to believe the most elementary truths if they do not happen to coincide with his experience.

By Theodore Pratt The New Yorker, January 19 , 1935P. 63 Mr. Hazard's experiences with a florida cracker who refuses to believe the most elementary truths if they do not happen to coincide with his experience.

The elementary truths of this system can be interpreted as claims about provability in the underlying system.

An elementary truth is true because it corresponds to an atomic fact: correspondence is still isomorphism, but it holds exclusively between elementary truths and atomic facts.

This recursive strategy could be pursued with the aim to reject the truthmaker principle: not all truths have truthmakers, only elementary truths have truthmakers (here understood as corresponding atomic facts).

The dot or pebble diagrams of ancient mathematics used to convince one of elementary truths of number theory necessarily display particular numbers of dots, though the truths are general.

That elementary truth applies to every area of the market.

A Times review said it "captures the intensity of elementary truth and transmutes it into rare, crystalline beauty".

The journalist Vance Thompson was bolstered in his disregard for the "monstrous fallacy that all men are born free and equal" while H. L. Mencken, Nietzsche's most influential American interpreter, championed "the greatest individualist since Adam" for exposing an elementary truth: It is "only the underdog... that believes in equality".

Those subjected to his nasal monotone, coloured only by the unmistakable "Rhodie" twang, are unlikely to forget the grinding, righteous whinge of a man who knew he was the only one in step and never understood why the rest could not grasp that elementary truth.

Today, the five senses are considered such an elementary truth that it is sometimes used as a point of consensus before writers embark on more mysterious or contentious topics.