Sentence examples for guarantee of truth from inspiring English sources

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Without infallibility, there can be no guarantee of truth.

Pieties, unlike clichés, carry no guarantee of truth: but there is a familiar one about the arts which does.

While government statements on counterterrorism provide no guarantee of truth, those in Yemen rarely had to do with attempts on the United States.

"My best thinking got me here" was a recovery adage that hit home, or, as he translated it in "Infinite Jest," "logical validity is not a guarantee of truth".

Even so, even though that is the best guarantee that there is sufficient reason to justify accepting the belief as true or the action as right, nonetheless, as always, we are fallible: while it may be the best guarantee of truth or belief or rightness of action that we have, one must also allow that it is best only so far as our fallible judgement allows.

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Among the beliefs a priori guaranteed of truth by the Davidson-type reasoning would be ones like that there is an earth, 2+2=4, bacteria do not study astro-physics.

Other ways of expressing the fact that an inference is deductively valid are to say that the truth of the premises gives (or would give) an absolute guarantee of the truth of the conclusion or that it would involve a logical inconsistency (as distinct from a mere mistake of fact) to suppose that the premises were true but the conclusion false.

Firstly, the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry in the early 19th Century showed that apparent self-evidence, at least in the case of the Parallel Postulate, is no guarantee of necessary truth.

Although we must wait to know what things God actually created, we are guaranteed of the truth of our ideas since it is the object itself that determines what we perceive.

Political institutions as such are regarded by Thoreau with distrust, and although he probably overestimates the extent to which it is possible to disassociate oneself from them, he convincingly insists that social consensus is not a guarantee of rectitude or truth.

First they suggest altering the account so that the truth of (1) does guarantee the truth of (22).

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