I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.

Recognizing the truth of the statement by the Institute of Public Administration that `` Metropolian Planning ( in Rhode Island ) means, or should mean, state planning '', the state guide plan will take into account the metropolitan nature of many of Rhode Island's problems.

Although Pearson disbelieved almost everything Lizzie said, and read a sinister purpose into almost everything she did, he happily accepted her statement about Bridget as the whole truth.

Her statement was a hope, not a truth in which they could believe.

Beauty and Truth have been argued to be nearly synonymous, as reflected in the statement " Beauty is truth, truth beauty " in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.

According to intuitionists ( anti-realists with respect to mathematical objects ), the truth of a mathematical statement consists in our ability to prove it.

According to platonists ( realists ), the truth of a statement consists in its correspondence to objective reality.

The degree of failure of the truth of the statement, measured by the homology of the chain complex

Lewontin, Gould and Eldredge were thus more interested in dialectical materialism as a heuristic, than a dogmatic form of ' truth ' or a statement of their politics.

Since history and memory ( representations of or belief about the past ) are distinct in all philosophy and ontology from plan, vision or intent ( representations of or will to change the future ), statements that confuse these are category errors: No statement about history or memory can imply a similar statement about a plan or vision or intent, nor vice versa-a distinction sometimes credited to Hume who distinguished also the morality of a statement from its truth.

But the state of being falsifiable or scientific says nothing about its truth, soundness or validity, for example the unfalsifiable statement " That sunset is beautiful.

Postmodernists and Post-Structuralists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida have attacked foundationalism on the grounds that the truth of a statement or discourse is only verifiable in accordance with other statements and discourses.

If a statement happens to be true in our world, but is false in some other worlds, then it is a contingent truth.

A statement that is true in some world ( not necessarily our own ) is called a possible truth.

" Trying to assign to this statement a classical binary truth value leads to a contradiction ( see paradox ).

The multi-sentence version of the liar paradox generalizes to any circular sequence of such statements ( wherein the last statement asserts the truth / falsity of the first statement ), provided there are an odd number of statements asserting the falsity of their successor ; the following is a three-sentence version, with each statement asserting the falsity of its successor:

His claim ( which he attributes to Charles Sanders Peirce and John Buridan ) is that every statement includes an implicit assertion of its own truth.

If a statement's truth value is ultimately tied up in some evaluable fact about the world, that statement is " grounded ".

If " this statement is false " is denoted by A and its truth value is being sought, it is necessary to find a condition that restricts the choice of possible truth values of A.

The Apostles ' Creed remains the most popular statement of the articles of Christian faith that are generally acceptable to most Christian denominations that are creedal.

" Four normal distribution | Gaussian distributions in statisticsThis unproved statement put a strain on his relationship with János Bolyai ( who thought that Gauss was " stealing " his idea ), but it is now generally taken at face value.

For each fellowship, anyone who publicly assents to the doctrines described in the statement and is in good standing in their " home ecclesia " is generally welcome to participate in the activities of any other ecclesia.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1583 – 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English Deism ," and his book De Veritate ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury ( d. 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English deism ", and his book De Veritate ( On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False ) ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

Nowadays, the word equation, in a mathematical context, is generally understood to mean a mathematical statement that asserts the equality of two expressions.

" Even the EU preliminary statement of 2005 also said "... the polling processes were generally positive.

" Even the EU preliminary statement of 2005 said that "... the polling processes were generally positive.

' A paper by Susan Isaacs ( 1952 ) on " The nature and function of Phantasy "... has been generally accepted by the Klein group in London as a fundamental statement of their position '.

The 1933 Act generally requires companies to file a registration statement with the SEC if they want to sell their securities publicly, or comply with private placement rules under the Act.

Origen's statement in his Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ) that Josephus " did not accept Jesus as Christ ", is usually seen as a confirmation of the generally accepted fact that Josephus did not believe Jesus to be the Messiah.

More generally, the statement must occur in the " course of justice ," but this definition leaves room open for interpretation.

Nonetheless, the concept is generally considered notoriously difficult to understand, as illustrated by Michael Atiyah's statement that is recounted by Dirac's biographer Graham Farmelo:

In the Boldt case, the Editors-in-Chief of 18 specialist journals ( generally anaesthesia and intensive care ) made a joint statement regarding 88 published clinical trials conducted without Ethics Committee approval.

Another Scripture text that Catholics generally understand as related to the Eucharist is the Gospel of John's account of Jesus as saying: " Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you … he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him " (), a statement that he did not tone down when, as a result, many of his disciples then abandoned him (), shocked at the idea.

The constitutions of the various states differ in some details but generally follow a pattern similar to that of the federal Constitution, including a statement of the rights of the people and a plan for organizing the government.

These groups generally advocate ( d ) revising the party's platform, eliminating or altering the membership statement, and focusing on a politics-oriented approach aimed at presenting libertarianism to voters in what they deemed a " less threatening " manner.

The razor's statement that " simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones " is amenable to empirical testing.

* A Revenue Procedure is a statement of the Treasury's practice and procedures, and generally deals with a broad subject area.

MAD programs are a series of statements written on punched cards, generally one statement per card, although a statement can be continued to multiple cards.

Typically equity holders receive voting rights, meaning that they can vote on candidates for the board of directors ( shown on a proxy statement received by the investor ) as well as certain major transactions, and residual rights, meaning that they share the company's profits, as well as recover some of the company's assets in the event that it folds, although they generally have the lowest priority in recovering their investment.

" Someone unfamiliar with sexual slang might find this statement funny simply because of the references to her cat, whereas generally a viewer would be expected to detect the innuendo (" pussy " is sexual slang for vulva ).

* From Borneo to Panama, each final player made a closing statement, allowing them to respond generally to the jury's questions and to again explain why they would be the most deserving winner.