"Post-disclosure the CIA will have substantial public relations issues as it has played a significant role in maintaining the truth embargo over six decades.
"He still wants to maintain the truth of the very, very grave allegation he made and the only way, in the teeth of an opinion like that, they can get vindication in the public arena is to pursue this.
At least in the recent past, if Protestant firebrands wanted to whip up anti-Catholic sentiment, it was convenient to portray their adversaries as practitioners of an exotic and vaguely frightening cult, and their own side as a people mandated by God to maintain the truth in a hostile land.
Kant would probably maintain the truth of the Thesis in that event.
(It should be noted, however, that some contemporary ethical naturalists count their position as a form of realism as indeed it is, at least in the weaker sense that it maintains the objective truth of ethical judgments).
A discourse can be viewed as a total system of knowledge that makes a multitude of true statements possible whilst articulating a particular truth and then maintaining the effects of that truth [ 28].
And then, if you just maintain the conversation, eventually the truth — what it is that that person really wants to do — comes out.
Davidson eschews any attempt to provide an account of the nature of truth, maintaining that truth is an absolutely central concept that cannot be reduced to or replaced by any other notion (see [Davidson 1990a] and [Davidson 2005b]).
Truth under a description, he maintained, is all the truth one needs to avoid subjectivism and relativism.
"The court's decision in the Real Truth case maintains the status quo," says Paul S. Ryan, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center.
