Sentence examples for thought is true from inspiring English sources

Then Twin Oscar's thought is true but Oscar's thought is false, even though both thoughts have the same narrow content.

I am thinking about ocelots, and if what I think of them (that they take snuff) is true of them, then my thought is true.

For instance, given the narrow content shared by Oscar and Twin Oscar when they think, "Lake Superior is full of water," we do not have enough information to say whether that thought is true or false in a particular situation.

Those who accept propositional objects in their ontology tend to agree with Frege that it is a completely objective fact of the matter whether a thought is true or false (ignoring vagueness, context-sensitivity, etc).

Turn the thought around, and find three genuine, specific examples of how each turnaround is true in your life. 1 and 2 Ask yourself if the thought is true.

If you think the thought is true, how do you know it is true?

According to Williams's friend, the journalist Herbert Boyd, "The ploy worked so well that soon after black folks all over New York City were talking about 'the plan' — a fictitious plot that many thought was true".

And even though it was fiction, based more on stuff I'd heard about rather than experienced, I might as well have told all present that I'd written a memoir, and that in the pages open before me, every vegetarian pita eaten, and every thought thought, was true.

So you can't have such thoughts, if those thoughts are true.

Thoughts are true or false; states of affairs obtain or not.

This is sometimes expressed by saying that while states of affairs obtain or not and thoughts are true or false, facts simply are (see Ducasse 1940, 709 10).