This suggests a strategy for ruling out spurious truth-makers: they're the ones that only necessitate true claims, whereas the real ones are also implicated (somehow) in the essences of the claims they make true.
For readers, these experts offer the promise, however spurious, of hidden truths that the stars would not normally impart.
If this definition is adopted then it is plausible to maintain that many of the spurious cases of truth-makers we have considered will thereby be weeded out (Lowe 2006: 202 3).
And then the following day the truth behind that spurious claim was revealed.
These are primarily documents of the eugenics movement in the United States, which like Galton's attempts in Europe to categorize human types via composite images, or Bertillon's efforts to catalog French criminals via collections of mug shots, or the Nazis' attempts to describe Aryans, depended on photography and its spurious claims to the undebatable truth.
When Cecilia Payne, a British-born graduate student studying at Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., recognized the great abundance of hydrogen and helium in 1925, she was persuaded by her elders to mark the result as spurious; only later was the truth recognized.
The quote may be spurious, but it contains a grain of truth.
The judge said those original denials – in which Hall described the claims against him as "cruel, pernicious and spurious – were made when he knew the truth and.
But in contrast to Democritus, who had followed the deductive route of the intellect, considering the knowledge of the senses to be spurious, Epicurus, following an inductive route, assigned truth to sensation and reduced the intellect to it.
Moreover, the set of components not associated to any ground truth position can be identified as spurious objects, reconstructed shadows, etc.
The strongest art goes far beyond symbols into raw truth, but pop sporting ceremonies can promote spurious messages.
