Sentence examples for merit of truth from inspiring English sources

The coalition's comforting story has the merit of truth.

This is a man now driven to turn a penny from journalism by the exigencies of unemployment quite unaccountably visited upon him by an ungrateful electorate, and perhaps we should be appreciative of that fact: his recollections, unlike some of the heavier memoirs of former ministers, at least have the merit of truth.

Neither boast has the merit of literal truth.

Though some might believe that the industry's mission is to produce and disseminate works of literary and/or historical merit, the truth is of course that its real purpose, like that of any industry, is to make money.

In contrast, whatever the merit of a correspondence theory of truth with its clear criterion that true statements must match, picture or mirror the objects and events to which they refer, this theory could not explain why the attainment of truth would make a difference in human affairs.

As for this merger's merits, there was a grain of truth in the core arguments on both sides.

Such conditions, in effect, articulate what it would mean to assess all the relevant information and arguments (for a given level of knowledge and inquiry) as reasonably as possible, weighing arguments purely on the merits in a disinterested pursuit of truth.

They are based on a partial restoration of truth values, which has some merit.