It is important to note that Bacon's idea of a to a certain extent Christian society by no means conveys Christian pessimism in the vein of patristic thinkers but rather displays a clear optimism as the result of compounding the problem of truth with the scope of human freedom and sovereignty (Brandt 1979, 21).
The relevance behind the first truth is the scope of ways dis-satisfaction occurs in life.
Do we follow Mencken, valiant for truth in the Scopes trial, or Mencken giving Adolf Hitler the gentlest of rides as the Nazis took power?
But unless we know the full scope and truth about abortion, we're debating in darkness.
Climate scientist Peter Gleick pretends to be a board member of the science-denying Heartland Institute, obtains confidential documents showing the full extent of the institute's blatant distortion of the truth and the full scope of its intention to stop climate science being taught to American school students.
Semantically, adverbs in -wise are generally regarded as identifying a relevant point of reference in respect of which the clause derives its truth value, that is, the scope of view-point adverbs is not the phrase but the whole clause.
According to that reading, the name takes wide scope, and the truth conditions are the same as those for a sentence like, 'For some x, x is the famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance and it might have been the case that: x has never been famous', which is true.
Too often the formula used by barristers in this particular court is one part fact and three parts conjecture to offer a hypothesis that masquerades as an ironclad truth that is universal in scope.
However, unlike Descartes, Leibniz limited the doctrine's scope to contingent truths.
Although this borrowed title may have been too long in an industry where hashtag-ability is now a concern, in truth it captures the book's scope and ambition perfectly.
