Of course, being pragmatic arguments, dependent-arguments are not truth-sensitive in an evidential sense; nevertheless they are dependent on truth since the benefits are had only if the recommended belief is true.
Perhaps the best-known example of an independent-argument is found in William James's celebrated "Will to Believe" essay in which he argues that, in certain circumstances, it is rationally and morally permissible to believe a proposition because of the benefits thereby generated.[2] Unlike independent pragmatic arguments, dependent ones are, in an important sense, truth-sensitive.
Dionne points out that conservative justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas who claim to be able to discern the "original intent" of the Constitution are deluded, since the founders held conflicting views and some provisions of the Constitution "embody not timeless truths but sensitive compromises aimed at resolving (or getting around) pressing disagreements of the moment".
I hope that, as someone who has been called to step to the forefront of the American Jewish community, you will honor that responsibility by using your platform to help educate the community about the compromises that are necessary for peace, the tough truths about sensitive issues like Jerusalem and the real meaning of the legacy of the late, great Prime Minister.
In other words, why, at the expense of valuable energetic resources, has evolution favored such sensitive truth-detecting and truth-dispensing processes?
The two trends are linked, but you would have listened in vain to hear the Chancellor acknowledge the politically sensitive truth that economic growth is being substantially powered by the willingness of migrants to take up jobs not filled by Britons.
This ensures that the segmentation will likely be close to the ground truth and less sensitive to noise.
In contrast to the petabytes of data flotsam, half-truths and speculation that drift daily around the Internet, WikiLeaks spews forth unvarnished, sensitive truths.
Of course, much depends on exactly what context-sensitive truth conditions are put forward.
So whether they are to be taken literally or figuratively, unqualified simple comparisons have highly context-sensitive truth conditions.
Then, I present a particular subspecies of representational mechanisms, anticipatory mechanisms, and show how they are sensitive to truth values of their contents.
