Fiction has dominated screens for so long, I don't really know what to make of truth.
When my Love sweares that she is made of truth, I doe beleeve her (though I know she lies) That she might thinke me some untutor'd youth, Vnskilfull in the worlds false forgeries.
Each tear-tugging tribute to the beloved's fortifying memory ("For thy sweet love rememebered such wealth brings,/ That then I scorn to change my state with kings") has to be weighed against some cynical riff that takes deceit and treachery for granted: "When my love swears that she is made of truth,/ I do believe her though I know she lies".
Are we creatures of a day made for truth?
Your trust in every other item in the paper is destabilised: you think, if they can get that wrong what am I to make of these "truths" about Iraq, about Palestine, about..
He had furnished Capote with the access and materials to tell the true parts of his story, and had permitted the author to stretch the truth, in making, of Dewey, a hero.
It seems to believe that it has no more authority than the average Joe Plumber to make determinations of truth and falsehood, and that its mission is simply to whip up senseless controversy and rope in eyeballs.
As we could see, Augustine makes recognition of truth dependent on divine illumination, a sort of irradiation of the intelligible light of divine ideas, which is accessible only to the few who are "holy and pure".
Following Luther's emphasis on faith and inwardness, it was possible to question the authority of traditional interpretations of the Bible in order to emphasize the way in which each and every reader faces the challenge of making the truths of the text her own.
is truth-valueless whenever A is (unless we make negations of truth-valueless statements true) and hence becomes invalid.
