Sentence examples for of determining truth from inspiring English sources

Although the demise of wager of law might seem to be a step forward from the modern point of view, it should be kept in mind that jury trial in the sixteenth century was a much cruder means of determining truth than it is today.

2. After Lewis 1979 it is common to treat standards of precision as a factor for determining truth or falsity relative to a context, rather than as separate dimension of evaluation.

Broad contents in turn are thought of as determining truth conditions; that is, a broad content will be true in some situations and false in others.

We cherish the exclusive province of juries to determine truth or falsity.

What's more interesting are the subtler paradoxes of faith that are found in those key tests which maintain the authority of the church to determine truth and doctrine, paradoxes thoughtful believers are well aware of.

Gadamer shares the existentialist suspicion of projects which purport to determine truths and values by means of abstract calculation.

Any sort of content that determines truth conditions will rule in some possibilities and rule out others.

Lewis (1980) claims that the primary task of semantics is to describe how semantic values of sentences determine truth-values at contexts and circumstances of evaluation, the latter of which Lewis calls 'indices'indices

Informally speaking, when the usual procedure of determining classical truth of a formula is applied to tr\((F \), it will test the provability (not the truth) of each of \(F\)'s subformulas, in agreement with Brouwer's ideas.

"The responsible authorities will again have to find, in the interest of determining the truth, whether there is not a possibility of obtaining access to previously denied materials, at least to a limited extent," he wrote in the decision.

Since then, the governor has found himself on the defensive, with editorial writers, columnists and political opponents in both parties accusing him of trying to protect his future at the expense of determining the truth.