Sentence examples for knowledge of the truth from inspiring English sources

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The nations of the earth shall hear thy voice and be brought to a knowledge of the truth by the wonderful testimony which thou shalt bear".

Plato's "cave" metaphor compares our knowledge of the truth to that of slaves watching shadows thrown on a stone wall, each believing their perceptions to be real.

Hakuin taught that direct knowledge of the truth is available to all, even the lowliest, and that a moral life must accompany religious practice.

But in time, Dr. Penchaszadeh said, "knowledge of the truth, painful as it was, was emotionally liberating from the perversity, lies, concealment and violence that in many cases had surrounded their rearing".

But does the knowledge of the truth constitute elements for interaction in the politics of our day, which has witnessed the unleashing of the American administration's evil to its fullest extent, dashing away all hope in any good?

Vedanta Hinduism and Buddhism, even if they do not speak of special revelation, believe that their religious books and traditions have unique value for imparting a saving knowledge of the truth.

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Religious knowledge is a knowledge of what has been revealed or said and does not, like sophia, involve knowledge of the truth-value of the utterance.

Giving up the Thomistic view of the atemporal presence of the flux of time to God, Scotus explains God's knowledge of the truth-value of future contingent propositions as a knowledge of which of the possible scenarios will be actual (Lect. I.39.1 5, 44).

If Frege could show that the basic laws of number theory are derivable from analytic truths of logic, then he could argue that we need only appeal to the faculty of understanding (as opposed to some faculty of intuition) to explain our knowledge of the truths of arithmetic.

That he conflates metaphysics with theology is clear from the opening of On First Philosophy, which says that since philosophy in general is the study of truth, "first philosophy" is "the knowledge of the first truth who is the cause of all truth".

So, like Gregory, Paul also supports the idea that human knowledge is true only qua knowledge of the ontological truth, and that sentences are true only in so far as they are signs of the ontological truth.

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