Sentence examples for received truth from inspiring English sources

It is a received truth that foreign heat undoes repression.

Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.

Through the prism of received truth, a single event may accumulate multiple interpretations: think only of the liberation of Paris in 1944 claimed as much by Americans as by the French; or of the fall of Berlin a few months later.

Not only did his radical discoveries about the movement of the stars free them from the "crystal vault" that received truth insistently claimed fastened them to the sky, but his insights suggested something even more dangerous: that we, too, are embarked on a great voyage, that we are free and without the easy support that dogma provides.

"The difficulty," Johnson writes in the book's final chapter, "is to understand without generalization, to see each piece of received truth, or generalization, as true only if it is true for me, solipsism again, I come back to it again, and for no other reason".

Where Descartes formulated precepts from which he could build an understanding of what we know and what we are, Montaigne instead performs the writerly being: doubting a while, then scurrying forward with his argument on the back of a received truth or a personal experience.

More than at any time since the modern republic was founded in 1923, Turkish society is questioning received truths (see article and article).

Though not a photographer, Jaar makes work that looks closely at how photographic images are used by those in power to construct narratives that then become received truths.

A tutor recalled his "very inquiring mind… he refused to accept automatically received truths and he wanted to examine everything himself".

Stevens questions old certainties, surveying the sky at dusk to find "Ambiguous undulations" in the hieroglyphic scrawl of pigeons on the sky, not received truths.

They are therefore static, unchanging and received truth-istina.