Sentence examples for particular truths from inspiring English sources

For genetics in particular, truths must be disowned because they are embarrassing.

Concerned with problems of language and logic, Mansel discussed the verification of the meaning of different propositions and stressed the fundamental difficulty of arriving at particular truths.

Drawing on his serious amateur interests in geology, botany, and meteorology, Ruskin made it his business to demonstrate in detail that Turner's work was everywhere based on a profound knowledge of the local and particular truths of natural form.

Upon his death he was buried beside the gate which bore his name, and the city became known as Kaerlud or Kaerlundein, " Lud's City." Those of sceptical cast of mind may be inclined to dismiss such narratives but the legends of a thousand years may contain profound and particular truths.

The criterion is as old as Aristotle, who wrote that poetry is more true than history because it presents universal truths whereas history gives only particular truths and that poetry (dramatic fiction) shows how a person of this or that kind probably or necessarily would behave (or think, or feel).

We have just seen that general truths supervene with metaphysical necessity on particular truths, but are not entailed by them (Section 3.2).

Just look inside yourself to see this particular truth.

But cliches persist because they speak powerfully to a particular truth.

In his major work, Über Annahmen (1902; "On Assumptions"), Meinong discussed the assumptions men make in believing they know or do not know a particular truth.

He stumbled on that particular truth when a group of teenagers stopped a car between floors, pried open the emergency hatch and threw in flaming wads of newspaper.

But he was telling a particular truth that liberals and conservatives have different reasons for evading: if the father works and the mother works, nobody is left to watch the kids.