Sentence examples for vague truth from inspiring English sources

The very vague truth behind this scene is that, in 1889, Lord Arthur Somerset was found in a gay brothel at 19 Cleveland Street.

"Not to be all 'vulnerable'," we'd say with air quotes and then relay some vague truth about our lives or feelings.

"Too easy an acceptance seems, frankly, sentimental, an erasure of the particular irreplaceable stuff of individuality with a vague, generalized truth".

With words as vague as these, truth is less a casualty than an irrelevancy.

REDBELT David Mamet professes his love for jujitsu and its code of honor in this slight, vague paean to truth and commitment.

The many-valued logician must first vindicate the analogy by providing details about how to calculate the truth-values of vague statements from the truth-values of their component statements.

Yet Mr Jones, with every fact nailed down to a source, is never censorious, and is vague only where the truth is veiled in a cloud of lies.

Throughout the text, we also dance with this vague idea that the truth of Bateman's life is somehow wavering; that we're being told what he sees as reality, when there's a good chance that nothing he believes is real – that the murders, the atrocities that he commits, the only things that seem to pacify him in this world he inhabits are actually false, lies and psychological breaks.

However, McGee (1991) and Tappenden (1993) proposed a unified treatment of the liar and sorites paradoxes based on similarities between vague predicates and the truth predicate.

"Trying to get at some sort of universal truth through vague generalities — that doesn't make any sense".

It's when I finally pluck up the courage to open up that I see the familiar look from the poor recipient of my truth; the vague mask they don in the hope it will convey empathy and interest, when all it really does is highlight their awkwardness and unease.