Sentence examples for pretense of truth from inspiring English sources
And permanence, by its nature, offers a pretense of truth.
Clearly, this is a White House that has no pretense of truth and therefore, targets and seeks to delegitimize truth-tellers at every opportunity.
As with the Congress, so also with the major news media that serve at the pleasure of a commercial oligarchy that pays them, and pays them handsomely, for their pretense of speaking truth to power.
There's no real pretense of telling the truth; the virtue of truthfulness isn't getting its normal tribute.
Osiander added an unsigned "letter to the reader" directly after the title page, which maintained that the hypotheses contained within made no pretense to truth and that, in any case, astronomy was incapable of finding the causes of heavenly phenomena.
The wise person embraces with William James the "...open air and possibilities of nature, as against dogma, artificiality, and the pretense of finality in truth".
I step aside from all pretenses of accuracy and authenticity.
It is a requirement that cannot be deemed to be satisfied by mere notice and hearing if a state has contrived a conviction through the pretense of a trial which in truth is but used as a means of depriving a defendant of liberty through a deliberate deception of court and jury by the presentation of testimony known to be perjured.
Woodbridge and Armour-Garb (forthcoming) recently argued that a deflationary view of truth is best understood in terms of semantic pretense (a hermeneutic fictionalist perspective), and on that basis offered a pretense account of the semantic paradoxes.
Endless truths destroy the notion of truth.
