USC assailed the lawsuit as "full of half truths" and "outright falsehoods". The truth will be sorted out in private after Sarkisian abruptly submitted to binding arbitration earlier this week.
Merricks surmises that if we have any reason to commit to truth-makers, we have only reason to commit outright to a truth-maker for every truth (maximalism).
And his transgressions certainly pale compared to the journalistic crimes committed by Jayson Blair at the New York Times and Stephen Glass at the New Republic, two writers who passed off outright fiction as truth.
Some uncritically picked up half-truths, outright fictions, and rightwing spin to feed their hate and rejected anything that diluted the purity and focus of that fury, including larger questions about the other candidate and the fate of the Earth.
Last week I tore that response letter apart and showed how it was full of half truths, outright lies and lots of misleading statements.
With the characters assembled Vigalondo puts the quartet in a pressure cooker of half-truths, outright lies, and paranoia exasperated by the fact that they are cut off from the world.
"In an atmosphere in which the president and his representatives can outright ignore basic truths and freedoms, more and more people are realizing there is no room for the tepid debates of the past," said an anarchist I'll call Lauren.
This suggests that his accounts of lengthy conversations with Venetians may be somewhat contrived, if that does not sound too cynical.Mr Berendt writes: "I knew in Venice I had been told truths, half-truths, and outright lies, and I was never entirely sure which was which".
One can only hope that Ashton Carter has moved past his glib endorsements of Donald Rumsfeld's disingenuous "group think" and Neil McElroy's outright distortion of the truth and on to a personal code of conduct where speaking truth to power is not seen as a vice, but rather a virtue.
According to intelligence officials and the incomplete public record, detainees who endured varying degrees of physical force did tell their interrogators some truths, as well as half-truths and outright lies.
