I would not have published the allegation of a McCain affair, because The Times did not convincingly establish its truth.
Other commentators, including Richard Aquila (1989: 159), Howell (1992: 227 8) and Schulting (2013) agree that the B-Deduction features the reciprocity thesis and an attempt to establish its truth, while Ameriks (1978) disagrees.
Unlike Argentina, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, Kosovo failed to establish its own truth-and-reconciliation commission.
It is sometimes suggested, not that physicalism is false, but that the entire 'project of physicalism' — the project in philosophy of mind of debating whether physicalism is true, and trying to establish or disprove its truth by philosophical argument — is misguided.
The latter evaluates arguments in terms of "soundness," defining a sound argument as a deductively valid inference with true premises that establishes the truth of its conclusion.
The Observer has had exclusive access to a cache of letters and photographs that establishes the truth about Brooke.
This isn't a shocking thing to say at all; it's already an established truth: it has long been the new normal to proclaim emoji as the lingua franca of the day.
If a deductive argument is to succeed in establishing the truth of its conclusion, two quite distinct conditions must be met: first, the conclusion must really follow from the premises i.e., the deduction of the conclusion from the premises must be logically correct and, second, the premises themselves must be true.
Masters himself believed that "science, by itself, has no moral dimension, but it does seek to establish truth, and upon this truth morality can be built" - and he and Johnson set out to find the truth.
In the latter case, the argument that appeals to PEM establishes not the truth, but the consistency of its conclusion.
