Sentence examples for means of truth from inspiring English sources

For example we define classical propositional consequence by means of truth valuations, first-order consequence relation by means of structures, the intuitionistic consequence relation by means of Kripke models, etc.

Yet pretending seems to be the only means of truth telling Goblet trusts.

Like Aquinas, Dante wished to summon his audience to the practice of philosophical wisdom, though by means of truths embedded in his own poetry, rather than mysteriously embodied in scripture.

"Hypotheses are… sometimes very necessary… in all cases when we cannot discover the true reason for a phenomenon and the attendant circumstances, neither a priori, by means of truths [identified as principles in §53] that we already know, nor a posteriori, with the help of experiments" (IP §60).

The golden mean of truth in all things is no longer either known or appreciated.

But the O.E.D. says the obsolete term means "suppression of truth or fact for the purpose of obtaining something; fraudulent misrepresentation".

The method of doubt may make sense in the special case where an enormous weight is given to avoiding error, even if that means loss of truth.

Monte Verità (which means "Mount of Truth") is no stranger to utopian societies and miscellaneous anarchists.

Eristic, (from Greek eristikos, "fond of wrangling"), argumentation that makes successful disputation an end in itself rather than a means of approaching truth.

Though the effectiveness of such an act has certainly diminished in secular societies, this appeal to God has for centuries been considered the surest means of obtaining truth.

(With a slightly different thrust, Mr. Rowland argues that Galileo's mistake was insisting on science as the only means of obtaining truth).