Sentence examples for truth of a statement from inspiring English sources

Rhetoric, the art of persuasion; dialectics being the art of deciding what the truth of a statement may be.

It is perverse indeed to say that these bodies are incompetent to inquire into the truth of a statement of fact in a defamation case.

So, famously, the Wason selection task asks people to determine which of four cards they need to turn over to verify the truth of a statement.

(It was during this interrogation that Clinton uttered his famous qualification that the truth of a statement his attorney had made depended "upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is").

Even when he laments belonging to "a race of people that don't know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies," he seems to be merely thinking out loud, as if he can evaluate the truth of a statement only by saying it and seeing how it fits.

Trust is the acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation.

But perhaps it helps to connect Badiou's understanding of truth to a statement of Heidegger's: "But here everything depends on steering clear of any conception of truth which is construed in the sense of 'agreement.'" See Being and Time, p. 56 (H 33).

The truth of such a statement depends, of course, on definitions: of "prominent" as well as "Nazi".

In logic an argument consists of a set of statements, the premises, whose truth supposedly supports the truth of a single statement called the conclusion of the argument.

Dependability, it is argued, is a measure of truth content of a statement or of safety content of a structure.

Positivists have often tended to conflate the truth conditions of a statement with its confirming evidence, a procedure which has led to certain absurdities committed by phenomenalists and operationalists, such as the pronouncement that the meanings of statements about past events consist in their (forthcoming future) evidence.