Defamation law expert David Rolph from the University of Sydney says this is "a comprehensive win" for Rush because the judge "wholly rejected the truth defence by Nationwide News".
That view faced the problem of having to reject the truth of highly intuitively true singular negative existential sentences like 'Ronald McDonald does not exist'.
Islamic Ecumenicism Of all the distortions and misconceptions about Islam one of the most important to dispel is the idea that Islam claims to be the one true religion and rejects the truth of other religions.
(How's McCarthy's "quantum prayer wheel" working for your kid's autism?) It is much easier to simply reject the truth, which as we know, the vaccine denialists don't care about; it is irrelevant to them.
John Calvin commented in his Institutes, "If we regard the Spirit of God as the sole fountain of truth, we shall neither reject the truth itself, nor despise it wherever it shall appear, unless we wish to dishonor the Spirit of God" (Institutes 2.2.15).
A recurring theme in Watch Tower discourse is the conviction that Jehovah's Witnesses are under attack by satanic forces, usually embodied as the state, the United Nations (e.g., 247), other (therefore false) religions, or a fallen, godless society that rejects the truth and the Witnesses themselves.
Relaying the message of Allah, the prophets gave the glad tidings of eternal Paradise to those who obey, and a stern warning of eternal hellfire to those who reject the truth when delivered to them.
We can avoid the contradiction by rejecting the idea that truth and falsity are the only two options for a sentence, and maintain that the Liar is neither.
This fictionalist about modality might reject the literal truth of all claims about necessity, for example (and, in virtue of the interdefinition, accept the literal truth of all possibility claims).
