Sentence examples for hypothesis of truth from inspiring English sources
In apparent agreement with Lewis, Laurence BonJour (1985, 148) writes: "[a]s long as we are confident that the reports of the various witnesses are genuinely independent of each other, a high enough degree of coherence among them will eventually dictate the hypothesis of truth telling as the only available explanation of their agreement".
For example, Gupta and Belnap 1993 introduce a theory, Tc, of truth based on consistent hypotheses: an hypothesis h is consistent iff the set {A : h(A) = t} is a complete consistent set of sentences.
Another body of literature revolves around the 'kernel of truth hypothesis' (Prothro and Melikian 1955), which poses that 'stereotypes are based on some empirical reality.
Corroboration is attractive because it does not attempt to assign probabilities of truth to hypotheses (Popper 1982, p. 346), but instead focuses on the evaluation of the particular evidence at hand.
What is faith but a series of hypotheses verifying the truth of what we believe?" Dr Tom Butler, the bishop of Southwark, whose doctorate is in electronics, said: "Since the Enlightenment, science has been dramatically successful in extending human knowledge and understanding of the universe and has changed every aspect of human existence.
So there could be an element of truth to both hypotheses, experts say.
In order to test our hypothesis, sets of reliable homologous proteins were used as a standard of truth.
One corollary of the paper is that each disjunct of the hypotheses of the dialogue at stake yields the dialogical version of truth in a model.
Proving the termination of a recursively defined algorithm requires a certain creativity of the (human or automated) reasoner for inventing a hypothesis whose truth implies that the algorithm terminates.
