(Monadology §36) But, since each particular truth of fact is contingent upon some other (prior) truth of fact, the reason for the entire series of truths must be located outside the series, and this ultimate reason is what we call God.
It breaks my heart that the administration was able to suppress the truth prior to the 2004 reelection, because now we've got three more years of Houston-Oil-Industry-funded corruption from the White House.
War was recorded by the Temptations before Edwin Starr, and Papa Was a Rollin' Stone was tried out on Whitfield's pet group the Undisputed Truth prior to the Temptations.
For comparison purposes, results obtained with ground-truth prior information are also presented (Prior).
To tell you the truth, prior to the invasion, it was really good.
The woman further alleged that she told investigators the truth prior to testifying at trial, but was threatened with arrest for perjury if she backed down.
As is my custom, this is not a political screed, although I must say I found it amusing that I was attacked by some Trump supporters for mentioning his name in what they deemed a negative light in a prior post...honest truth?
Hence distinct antecedent reasons determine truths; distinct prior grounds determine things.
Eagle (2005: §4–5) suggests that a system is predictable iff, conditional on what we know about the past states of the system, and knowing the laws, we may have a posterior credence in future states that is closer to the truth than our prior credence (where closeness to the truth is characterised by having a more inaccuracy-minimising credence, as in Joyce 1998).
Bill Shorten has said he accepts a recommendation to dump Labor's candidate for Fremantle, unionist Chris Brown, because he was "not forthcoming with the truth" about prior convictions.
