Sentence examples for false affirmations from inspiring English sources

Hobbes's comment about false affirmations suggests he thinks that 'incorporeal substance' is insignificant because 'a substance is incorporeal' is false.

However, the whole point of the Fourth Meditation would seem to be that God is imperfect if our errors (and false affirmations) are inevitable, and thus that on any given occasion it is always possible for us to affirm or deny.

As society "progress," we have become a bunch of cultural sycophants obsessed with creating false affirmations and pseudo-solidarities.

Both laws pertain to contradictories, as in a paired affirmation ("S is P") and denial ("S isn't P"): the negation is true whenever the affirmation is false, and the affirmation is true when the negation is false.

In fact, Maritain allows that theology can "reject as false any philosophic affirmation which contradicts a theological truth" (Introduction to Philosophy, p. 126).

"the denial is false whenever the assertion is true, and the affirmation is false whenever the denial is true", is committed to the view "that all speak alike falsely and truly".

"Perjury is the wilful giving of false evidence under oath or affirmation in judicial proceedings.

Love that cannot withstand criticism is hardly the truest kind; love that requires constant, public affirmation eventually rings more false than true to those who hear it.

Participants received a questionnaire with affirmations to mark true or false.

"The affirmations attributed to his lawyer are completely false and defamatory".

He addresses the question of whether in relation to all questions it is necessary that the affirmation or the negation is true or false.