The author adds, in what seems a pro-forma note, that nothing he has written "should be taken as true in the journalistic sense of the word".
It is not necessary that the primary premises of an a priori science should in fact be truths; for the purposes of the system they need only be taken as true, or postulated as such.
If a mathematical description fit the facts, as did Ptolemy's explanation of the unequal lengths of the seasons by the eccentricity of the Sun's orbit, should the description be taken as true of nature?
He asserted that these were merely poetic fictions, useful for the common people because they provided an orderly outlet for human emotions, but not to be taken as true by educated men.
This cannot always be taken as true because very often practical and state-of-the-art technology can supersede theoretical consideration.
Maybe a new proverb 'Not to err is computer (non-living being)' can be taken as true in the modern computer age.
Again, the key to the analysis is to take cutoffs as sites for inconsistency, for objects both F and not F. Then all tolerance claims (about vague F) are taken as true; but since, paraconsistently, the inference of disjunctive syllogism is not generally valid, these claims do not imply, via modus ponens, absurdities like 'everyone is bald'.
More generally, given that a practice issues in truth-evaluable statements, it seems that one cannot advocate X-standards as the arbiters of these statements' acceptability while simultaneously advocating a different set of standards, the Y-standards, as arbiters of whether or not the statements should be taken as true, how they should be interpreted, etc.
Nevertheless, such comparisons cannot be taken as true indications of Juba's personal style.
Plaintiffs have alleged facts, which must be taken as true for purposes of a motion to dismiss, that any reasonable person would agree to be gross violations of the norms of international law, remediable under the Alien Tort Statute.
