Sentence examples for practical truths from inspiring English sources

It resides in the insight that the nature of practical truths should be explained in terms of the constitutive features of practical reasoning.

It can function not only as an independent endeavor in search for abstract truth, but also as intentional pursuit of practical truths, which to be applied in everyday life.

It must therefore be a basic truth, i.e., a truth that does not have an objective "ground", but can only be an objective "ground" of other (practical) truths (WL II, 375, RW I, 229, RW IV, 207).

(i) There are truths, he says, which are accessible to natural reason, that is, to ordinary experience (including the specialized observations of natural scientists), insight, and reflection; and these include practical truths about good and evil, right and wrong.

But the accounts of the first two types are almost entirely in terms of how they differ from the rational type, whose rationality is self-evident to Weber and his readers on the basis of their own knowledge of human goods (basic aspects of human wellbeing) and related practical truths.

Mr. Obama's ability to recognize the poetic truth of Eliot's conservatism, while still embracing the practical truth of liberalism, is what makes his letter not just a curiosity but also a hint at the complexity of his mature politics.

"It is a practical truth," the administration official said, that without a deal, "our Congress would not likely follow through on the assistance promises we've made, nor would other partners".

By the supreme moral law Bolzano means "a practical truth [i.e., a true ought proposition] from which every other practical truth can be derived objectively, i.e., as the consequence from its 'ground'" (RW I, 228; cf. also RW I, 44, 244, 256, RW IV, 27, 217, 221, and WL II, 348, WL IV, 178).

While it is easy to call for greater quality, the practical truth is that development timelines are long and the true quality of any given agent cannot be readily known until some years into its life cycle.

But Friend turns out to be a disarming blend of Jon Stewart and Deepak Chopra--part entertainer and funny man, part imparter of down-to-earth, practical, spiritual truths.

James (e.g., 1907) understands this principle as telling us what practical value truth has.