But if this is the doing of the gods, do they intervene to protect truth or to maintain falsehood?
No, we misuse the only language we have to close the distance between us in order to maintain the very falsehoods that strand us in flimsy private myths.
PEREVALNOYE, Crimea — As Russian troops and extralegal militias swiftly seized Crimea from Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin maintained a falsehood.
I am, however, not yet completely morally bankrupt, and I do maintain a mental tally of falsehoods committed to paper and cannot help noticing when obvious patterns emerge.
Volf's work is in a conversation with early peace talkers such as Nicholas of Cusa, who, disagreeing with the pope's estimation of Islam as a "falsehood maintained by the sword," penned a treatise called "On the Harmonious Peace of Religions" (in Latin, "De pace fidei").
If the modal status of propositions depends on God's volition, and this entails that it could have been false that 2+2=4, we might maintain that strictly, there are no necessary truths or falsehoods.
You can maintain your credibility with the public and with journalists by adroitly advocating your cause, but once you cross the line into ridiculous and demonstrable falsehoods, that's the point of no return.
One strange Sarah Palin falsehood, which she acclaimed as truth yesterday and the campaign reaffirmed tonight in video was that she successfully auctioned a private jet she deemed unnecessary for the State of Alaska to maintain on eBay.
Maintain, maintain, maintain.
Solutions can only be implemented, and therefore effective, if tech companies fully acknowledge their roles in maintaining and perpetuating bias, discrimination and falsehoods, he adds.
Her husband maintains that this is an outright falsehood that Betty Friedan, in print interviews and on television, has since tried to take back.
