Truths

Herbert distinguished truths obtained through experience, and through reasoning about experience, from innate truths and from revealed truths.

Many pundits enjoy fine careers by telling many truths… but not all truths.

Truths, half-truths and even outright lies.

It is a lesson in the danger of half-truths, which are not only more powerful than truths but often more powerful than lies.

And religions taught important truths about the world, albeit these truths were expressed through metaphors that were not always suited to modern understandings of the world.

At the same time, however, he claimed this was impossible because such established truths would require other truths to back them up—first principles, therefore, cannot be reached.

By Hume's fork, truths by relations among ideas (abstract) all align on one side (analytic, necessary, a priori), whereas truths by states of actualities (concrete) always align on the other side (synthetic, contingent, a posteriori).

Franklin, for example, may have been responsible for changing Jefferson's original phrase "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" to "We hold these truths to be self-evident".

Here, Pascal looked into the issue of discovering truths, arguing that the ideal of such a method would be to found all propositions on already established truths.

It is essentially the difference between the real (everything subject to time) and the ideal or irreal (everything that is atemporal), such as logical truths, mathematical entities, mathematical truths and meanings in general.

Newman argued that, because the conscience suggests the existence of objective moral truths, God must exist to give authority to these truths.

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992 While objective truths are final and static, subjective truths are continuing and dynamic.

Rather, it is concerned with certain truths and realities that transcend the comprehension of the common run of men; yet it is from these truths and realities that the principles of doctrine and the practical injunctions of the Quran issue forth.

Some intellectuals have championed a "high conservative modernism" that insists that universal truths exist, and have opposed approaches that deny the existence of universal truths.

Such massive violence led to a search for natural religious truths truths that could be universally accepted, because they had been either "written in the book of Nature" or "engraved on the human mind" by God.

This metaphysics is entailed in the Tiantai teaching of the "three truths" which is an extension of the Mādhyamaka two truths doctrine.

Accounts about the “Indian Wars” in Utah are told almost exclusively from a settler perspective, with plenty of omissions and half-truths.

Amy Wax does not “think like” a large proportion of American academics, often citing inconvenient truths that offend many of them.

As he listened to her “talking about a lot of the harsh truths of life in such a funny, digestible way,” Lee had an idea: Maybe it would be more interesting if played Danny’s nemesis?

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