Sentence examples for putative truth from inspiring English sources

The approaches by Nunes and Balding (2010) and Fearnhead and Prangle (2012) and our local boosting procedures all consist of several steps, at least one being devoted to establishing the vicinity of the putative truth.

At the second stage, the n′ data sets close to the putative truth are used as a training set to choose, again, among (possibly) all subsets of the original candidate statistics.

In other words, the putative truths of quotidian life are actually delusions that, if believed, prevent one from attaining the wisdom that is capable of leading to the imperturbable peace of nirvana.

But Savile's case is worth mulling, if only because the institution in which his serial child abuse took place is one of the most respected media organizations in the world, a putative shrine to truth and accountability: the BBC.

Let's start with the putative value of truth.

There is, first, a lively debate concerning putative epistemic aims, whether truth (or knowledge understood in the "weak" sense of true belief) (Goldman 1999), critical thinking or rationality and rational belief (or knowledge in the "strong" sense that includes justification) (Scheffler 1973/1989, Siegel 1988 , 1997 2005), or understanding (Elgin 1999, 1999a).

This applies both to the ABC algorithm in general and to our suggestion of choosing summary statistics in the putative neighborhood of the truth.

This study examined the utility of two interview instructions designed to overcome children's reluctance to disclose transgressions: eliciting a promise from children to tell the truth and the putative confession (telling children that a suspect "told me everything that happened and wants you to tell the truth").

To put the same point in terms of evidence: plausibly, much if not all of the value of respecting one's evidence consists in the putative link between doing so and believing the truth.

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.

Most importantly, however, Aquinas says that assent is given to the propositional articles of faith because their truth is revealed by God, and on the authority of the putative source of this revelation.