Sentence examples for presumption of truth from inspiring English sources
Habeas hearings all but ground to a stop in October 2011 after the Justice Department won a complex case against a Yemeni detainee, Adnan Latif, that in effect gave even fragmentary government intelligence reports on detainees the presumption of truth.
For a democratic society in which the presumption of truth is generally the default response to most content, we will quite soon live in a world where everything must be considered fake without evidence to the contrary.
Paradigmatically, tarka is called for in order to establish a presumption of truth in favor of one thesis that has putative source support against a rival thesis that also has putative source support, a thesis and a counterthesis both backed up by, for example, apparently genuine inferences (the most common situation) or by competing perceptual or testimonial evidence.
By supposing the truth of the rival thesis and (in Socratic style) showing how it leads to unacceptable consequences or breaks another intellectual norm, one repossesses a presumption of truth, provided the classical epistemologists never tire of emphasizing provided one's own thesis does indeed have at least the appearance of a knowledge source in its corner.
It is perfectly proper that ordinarily people should maintain a strong presumption in favour of truth telling.
Doing so is one way to try to secure the 'unity' of truth (on the presumption that there is just one F-role).
"My dilemma, like that of other innocents called before these committees, is whether to take refuge in constitutional protections" against self-incrimination or "to stand on the constitutional presumption of innocence to proclaim the truth".
Shipman's victims Stymied in Ulster Edging away William the unflappable Taking the Michael Scotland's new politics Tales from Telford Harsh truths ReprintsThe presumption of medical innocence, the power that a doctor has over patients, and the respect which all doctors in Britain are accorded, are what allowed Dr Shipman to indulge his gruesome tastes for so long.
If even an almighty signal fails to rise above the din of discord, how mad the presumption of hope for such lesser truths from we of such small voices.
"It relies on the central idea that a woman who files a complaint tells the truth, so it relies on a presumption of guilt, while French law is based on a presumption of innocence".
