Sentence examples for supposed veracity from inspiring English sources

But what do imagination and make-believe have to do with memory — a mental faculty we value precisely for its supposed veracity?

Locke's Essay never writes of "credit" or of the knowledge it produces without also mentioning the "Man of credit" who, because of his "wonted Veracity... in other cases, or his supposed Veracity in this," is able to create the effect of truth for an audience ( EU, 4.15.1).

In another century, one that was only just becoming acquainted with the camera and its supposed veracity, the novelist Émile Zola proposed: "In my opinion, you cannot say you have thoroughly seen anything until you have a photograph of it".

Doubts remained as to the veracity of the supposed North Vietnamese naval attacks on U.S. ships in the Tonkin Gulf that had officially triggered the resolution, or whether the Navy even had cause to venture so close to a sovereign nation's coastline.

The very exoticism of the supposed Polynesian words testified to the veracity of his accounts, Melville believed; the "magic, cabilistic, taboo-istic" experience Tommo first undergoes on Nuku Hiva, in turn, resolves itself to a reasoned cultural relativism and condemnation of many Western notions of reform.

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As a documentary — one in which uncertainty about its veracity or at least discomfort about its supposed honesty was meant to supply most of the energy and seemed to be, in fact, the motivating idea — the movie received generally horrible reviews.

Around half of Africa Check's investigations are triggered by readers wanting to know anything from the veracity of claims made by pop stars to supposed disease-busting local herbs.

While agile methods are in use in industry, little research has been undertaken into what is meant by agility and how a supposed agile method can be evaluated with regard to its veracity to belong to this category of software development methodological approaches.

Those boxes of text give videos context, sourced from sites like Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is supposed to let viewers make an informed decision about a clip's veracity.

In school we learn to quote supposed "authorities" – writers who lend support to our case not simply because of the veracity of their findings or the eloquence they lend to our words but also because they have some kind of recognised standing which we hope to add to our own.