"There is no truth or basis" in the news reports, the palace said in a statement read over state radio.
For him, there's something more at stake than a magazine article or a promotion: Truth, the basis of our shared reality, is on the line.
If it relies only on truths anyone can be expected upon sufficient reflection to know about the world, and if it offers to lead to new truths on the basis of such truths, and only on that basis, then it is philosophical discourse.
They concentrate on the theory of syllogism, but all elements of Leibniz's theory of logic are present, to the extent that they are regarded as a device for the evaluation of the validity of given theses (ars iudicandi) and for finding new truths on the basis of given truths (ars inveniendi).
And this encounter with the truth is the basis for political action, or, in this case, the basis on which genocide becomes justified.
Could a lie have truth as its basis?
This divorce from geometric intuition added impetus to later efforts to rebuild assurance of truth on the basis of logic.
Assured truth on the basis of concepts is possible only of human creations, like mathematical ideas, and it is questionable whether these have any objective truth.
But Senator John F. Kerry tries to use this truth as the basis for blowing the dust off an outdated Washington regulation on automobile fuel efficiency.
Quite soon, I was boasting (in truth, on the basis of very little) that the Observer was the only British newspaper to take graphic books seriously.
