Sentence examples for grasp truth from inspiring English sources

No rational proof or syllogism can grasp truth, which comes only from faith (ch. 1).

Rather, faith commits itself only beyond, and not against, the evidence and it does so out of epistemic concern to grasp truth on matters of vital existential importance.

In the target cases, the epistemic concern to grasp truth and avoid falsehood is not overridden: they are cases where the truth that a person is trustworthy may be beneficially grasped only if one first takes it that the person is trustworthy beyond the possible support of evidence though once the venture is made conclusive evidence of trustworthiness may happily soon accumulate.

We are able to grasp truths of quantum field theory or higher dimensional topology or, for that matter, philosophy (or so we are assuming in even engaging in this debate) even though those truths had nothing to do with why the basic mental capacities underlying these abilities evolved in Pleistocene hominins.

In his Book of Religion, al-Farabi explains along these same lines that most people are not able to grasp truths through an exercise of intellect, but rather, "either due to nature or because they are occupied with other things" these people (the average folks) will "understand generally accepted or persuasive things" (BR, B 98; BR, M § 48).

At the same time, like many philosophers Aristotle clearly believes that when it comes to grasping truth, philosophy is superior to poetry.

Of course, it can be a contested matter whether one's access to truth in some domain is problematic and thus, whether one is dependent upon evidence for grasping truths about that domain.

It's more plausible to suppose that we first grasp what truth is, and only subsequently figure out what truth-makers are required for the various kinds of propositions there are (Horwich 2009: 188).

What this creates is a tumult of landscapes and identities in which it is hard to grasp the truth.

That she was prescient enough to grasp a truth that still eludes too many of her clan.

Among the marks of a star on television, as in the cinema, is his or her ability to grasp this truth and act on it.