Sentence examples for purported truth from inspiring English sources

His last book, Truth And Truthfulness (2002) analyses the way Richard Rorty, Derrida and other followers of politically correct Foucaultian fashion sneer at any purported truth as ludicrously naive because it is, inevitably, distorted by power, class bias and ideology.

The Guardian wrote in its obituary of Williams that the book is an examination of those who "sneer at any purported truth as ludicrously naive because it is, inevitably, distorted by power, class bias and ideology".

Online content about a person produces a Schrödinger's Cat situation in which a purported "truth" about an individual is spat out by the vagaries of a search algorithm, but potentially contradictory "truths" about an individual already exist as searchable and could equally be produced.

Another potential epistemic value is that of providing evidence for those purported truths.

More interesting than the hard truths Christie purported to deliver from the podium in Tampa were the truths he revealed implicitly: that he is unoriginal, divisive, and not loyal enough to be worthy of the platform Romney gave him.

Some psychological studies have purported to show the truth in the old saying that money does not buy happiness.

Or at least, what purported to be the truth: a bomb had been detonated on board, and two Libyan nationals were fingered for the crime.

He purports to find truth in his shallow predispositions, reacting with impulsive verbal swipes at imagined adversaries and imposing senselessly juvenile labels on events that he cannot understand, let alone interpret.

The Carpenters' story appeared ­custom-made for "Behind the Music," and in 1998, an episode of that VH1 series purported to tell the whole grisly truth.

As Thomas Hobbes is purported to have said, "hell is truth seen too late".

Gadamer shares the existentialist suspicion of projects which purport to determine truths and values by means of abstract calculation.