Sentence examples for lacking truth from inspiring English sources

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So the probability of its truth, given that it has a truth value, is 0. One can try other truth tables: make the conjunction true provided that it has at least one true conjunct and no false conjunct, false if it has at least one false conjunct, lacking truth value otherwise.

ISIS specializes in killing, and destroying, all Shi'a of Islam, Whom they call apostate, Meaning not holy enough, Not sanctified, and lacking truth, so they kill, Shi'a, dear God, they sadistically kill because of their unholy beliefs.

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All phenomena equally lack truth.

In particular, propositions that lack truth value will falsify (strong-ES).

These epistemic conditionals lack truth values and are somewhat 'parasitic' on K and its dynamics.

They serve as a basis for modal judgments of serious possibility that, in turn, lack truth values.

But we also need a notion of acceptance capable of characterizing the acceptance of sentences that lack truth values but express important cognitive attitudes.

According to this strategy, one should not respond to the phenomena that prompt the gap by suggesting that certain propositions lack truth values; one should rather suggest that certain declarative sentences lack truth values, i.e., because they fail to express propositions at all.

This allows us to accept that the instances of (ES-prop) involving propositions that lack truth value are true, since the two sides of the biconditional will have the same semantic value.

Counterfactuals about what the average person would have done are arguably of doubtful relevance and counterfactuals about what a particular individual would have done in wildly different circumstances may generally lack truth value.

This may be taken either as the claim that performative sentences, even those in the indicative grammatical mood, lack truth value; or instead as the claim that utterances of performative sentences, even when such sentences have truth value, are not assertions.

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