Sentence examples for possibility of falsehood from inspiring English sources

Eugene Volokh, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, law school, said that if Mr. Zuckerberg sued and was declared a public figure, he would then "have to show that the filmmakers knew the statements were false, or were reckless about the possibility of falsehood".

In many of these cases, the denial is explicitly formulated as a rejection of the possibility of falsehood, of thinking or speaking of what is not the case.

They treat utterances which are commonly regarded as true or false as lacking in truth-value (at least with respect to their primary meanings) and they immunize moral judgments from error by depriving them of the possibility of falsehood.

It thus seems fair to say that the subject-predicate analysis of simple declarative sentences the most basic feature of Aristotelian term logic which was to reign supreme for many centuries had its origin in Plato's response to a sophistical argument against the possibility of falsehood.

Its optative character is obvious (to those who understand English) and the fact that it is in the optative excludes the possibility of truth and falsehood.

But this is a growing field, and the more requirements there are that statements be attested to, the greater the possibility of prosecutions for falsehoods, intentional or not.

And if they were to be based on fantasy, self-deception, or deliberate falsehood, then no possibility of genuine debate and argumentation could be sustained.

However, as we saw above, in §282 Wittgenstein indicates that the border between nonsense and falsehood is itself unclear; and moreover, in trying to make sense of the possibility of a private language, we may find, in different parts of the chain of reasoning, suggestions of falsehood as well as of nonsensicality.

The habit of falsehood is fatal to a culture.

The band's relentless positivity is another kind of falsehood.

And he keeps finding new frontiers of falsehood.