One year on from the end of the war, it time to see increased efforts to secure truth, justice and a lasting peace in Sri Lanka.
I could not receive an honour on the recommendation of those who remained unresponsive to the determined efforts of bereaved families and survivors to secure truth and justice".
The regional court's ruling means that "El Salvador will have to secure truth and justice for the crimes committed during this massacre," said Viviana Krsticevic, executive director for the Center for Justice and International Law in Washington, which joined with the human rights office of the San Salvador archdiocese to take the case to the regional court.
The thousands of artists and artisans who labored, with the aid of Nicolas-Jacques Conté (the inventor of the modern pencil and, just in time for publication, of engraving techniques that were unprecedented in their tonal subtlety), evinced a spirit that was academic in the best sense — dedicated to securing truth.
Other examples where the harm principle may apply include libel laws, blackmail, advertising blatant untruths about commercial products, advertising dangerous products to children (e.g. cigarettes), and securing truth in contracts.
After all, the puzzles and arguments discussed in §§2 6 seem to show that no interpretation can secure the truth of everything that we are inclined to say about ordinary objects.
Since minimalism secures minimal truth conditions, indicative moral sentences have truth conditions and the states they express are beliefs.
One could of course adopt a second-order axiomatization that secures every truth (about, say, ℕ) as a (second-order) logical consequence; but then one would have to live with the drawback that second-order logical consequence is not axiomatizable.
There are a number of texts in which Descartes reflects that view that finite minds are wholly unable to refrain from affirming a clear and distinct perception.[46] Indeed, we might think that the only way that we would be able to know that God's non-deceiverhood secures the truth of clear and distinct perceptions is if those perceptions are utterly compelled.
The Greeks, who had raised a sublime science from a pile of practical recipes, discovered that in reversing the process, in reapplying their mathematics to the world, they had no securer claims to truth than the Egyptian rope pullers.
Minimalism about truth secures the first requirement so long as the target sentences are meaningful, the indicative form of the relevant atomic moral sentences plus our linguistic practices secure the second, and the positive non-cognitivist proposal for the meanings of the terms brings along a story about appropriate and inappropriate use.
