Sentence examples for universally accepted truth from inspiring English sources

Dalley said: "That the Hanging Garden was built in Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar the Great is a fact learned at school and … 'verified' in encyclopaedias … To challenge such a universally accepted truth might seem the height of arrogance, revisionist scholarship..

It is a truth universally accepted that Christmas isn't what it used to be.

"Father Dowling embodies a medieval worldview with its unambiguous moral order and universally accepted recognition of the truth of that order".

Although the idea that new learning is dependent on what has been learned previously is almost universally accepted, demonstrations of its truth have been largely confined to the psychological laboratory, particularly in the field of text processing (e.g., Bransford and Johnson 1972; Kintsch and Van Dijk 1978).

Widgery's original Bloody Sunday report is universally accepted as a rewriting of truth in the most terrible way.

Perhaps the most widely used is skin conductance, a technique that is questionable as a means of identifying whether a single person is telling the truth but universally accepted as a means of measuring activation of the sympathetic nervous system -- the part of human architecture that prepares the body for giving a hug, throwing a punch, wrinkling up a nose, or running away.

In truth, there is no universally accepted definition of intelligence, either animal or human.

In truth, there is no universally accepted definition of the term.

A widespread, perhaps universally accepted idea is that part of what distinguishes logical truths from other kinds of truths is that logical truths have a yet to be fully understood modal force.

As it turns out, it is very hard to think of universally accepted ideas about what the generic properties of logical truths are or should be.

But the idea that logical truths are or should be formal is certainly not universally accepted.