Sentence examples for subject of truth from inspiring English sources

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There are two quotations from William James on the subject of truth, but not the most elegant of his formulations: "The true is the name for whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief".

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One of them was practically psychotic on the subject of the truth and the other was clearly some sort of pathological liar.' Ephron knew Hellman, and says she was 'constantly making things up' - not just the grander stories about sneaking past the Nazis, but also 'fabulous stories about fights she had had in the fur department at Bergdorf Goodman.

Each of the four domains are subject to a characteristic norm or value: aesthetic is subject to beauty, logic is subject to truth, economic is subject to the useful (or vitality), and the moral is subject to the good.

The implication is that, for Heidegger, one cannot straightforwardly subject the truth of one age to the standards of another, which means, for example, that contemporary chemistry and alchemical chemistry might both be true (cf. Dreyfus 1990, 261 2).

The Committee found that political advertising involves concepts, ideas, policies and images (often contested by the opposing parties) which cannot be subjected to a test of truth, truth itself being inherently difficult to define.

We are subjected to the production of truth through power and we cannot exercise power except through the production of truth.

Mixing his own films with footage uncovered in industrial and military archives and laconic texts, he offers a self-reflexive, cinematic Cubism in which the medium itself, as a vehicle of truth, is subject to radical doubt.

Mixing his own films, footage uncovered in industrial and military archives and laconic texts, he offers a self-reflexive, cinematic Cubism in which the medium itself as a vehicle of truth is subject to radical doubt.

This new book on love is an application of Badiou's singular philosophy of the subject and his outré conception of truth set out in incredibly forbidding books steeped in mathematics and deploying Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, such as Theory of the Subject, Being and Event and Logics of Worlds.

The wording of SQUARE does not rule out the possibility of truth-valueless sentences so Strawson's view that empty subject terms lead to lack of truth value does not conflict with SQUARE.

Being Naipaul, though, he has also suggested, while in tough-minded materialist mode, that writers' lives are "a legitimate subject of inquiry; and the truth should not be skimped.

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