Sentence examples for falsehood as from inspiring English sources

It can ruin reputations, with falsehood as easily as with truth.

Trump's claim that financial institutions "have been devastated and unable to properly serve the public" is an utter falsehood, as is his claim that, in appointing Mulvaney, he was acting in the economic interests of ordinary Americans.

But the plot is set in motion by conservative religious practice the hired caregiver's concern over attending to the elderly man's bodily needs and it turns on issues of truth and falsehood, as well as of law and justice and whether indeed they always coincide.

and: What keeps a truth, which by definition corresponds with some fact, from also mis-corresponding with some other fact, i.e., from being a falsehood as well?

Skepticism about moral reality is, thus, a reason for skepticism with moral falsehood, as developed by Mackie (1977), or skepticism about moral truth-value, as developed by Joyce (2001).

However, as we saw above, in §282 Wittgenstein indicates that the border between nonsense and falsehood is itself unclear; and moreover, in trying to make sense of the possibility of a private language, we may find, in different parts of the chain of reasoning, suggestions of falsehood as well as of nonsensicality.

Self-diagnosis is dangerous, more so in this age of easy information dissemination and access, where unverified falsehoods have as much chance of being read as rigorously researched facts.

I had to wonder when I came upon this story years after all this, given the reality as evidenced by so very many documentary sources, how did Tierney's falsehoods get as far as they did?

Jeal nails the falsehoods as "misguided lies".

First, there's his politician's way with technically truthful falsehoods, as in: "I am not a violent person.

There is also more accountability today, as a digital record can now be tied to the creator of falsehoods as they unfurl.