Thus the necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth of a proposition of law simply involved internal logic and consistency, and that the state's agents used state power with responsibility.

We are told that he was " plain and powerful in preaching, fervent in prayer ", " a discerner of other men's spirits, and very much master of his own ", skilful to " speak a word in due season to the conditions and capacities of most, especially to them that were weary, and wanted soul's rest "; " valiant in asserting the truth, bold in defending it, patient in suffering for it, immovable as a rock ".

By evaluating the truth conditions, we see that both expressions have the same truth conditions ( will be true in the same cases ), and moreover that any proposition formed by arbitrary conjunctions will have the same truth conditions, regardless of the location of the parentheses.

For instance, the sentence does not have the same truth conditions as, so they are different sentences distinguished only by the parentheses.

Work by Thomas Kuhn has claimed that it is not possible to provide truth conditions for science independent of its historical paradigm.

Meta-ethical relativists, in general, believe that the descriptive properties of terms such as " good ", " bad ", " right ", and " wrong " do not stand subject to universal truth conditions, but only to societal convention and personal preference.

Nozick believed the counterfactual conditionals bring out an important aspect of our intuitive grasp of knowledge: For any given fact, the believer's method must reliably track the truth despite varying relevant conditions.

Secularism does not say there is no light or guidance elsewhere, but maintains that there is light and guidance in secular truth, whose conditions and sanctions exist independently, and act forever.

Traditionally, semantics has included the study of sense and denotative reference, truth conditions, argument structure, thematic roles, discourse analysis, and the linkage of all of these to syntax.

The challenge is to arrive at the truth conditions for any sentences from fixed meanings assigned to the individual words and fixed rules for how to combine them.

Wittgenstein is to be credited with the invention or at least the popularization of truth tables ( 4. 31 ) and truth conditions ( 4. 431 ) which now constitute the standard semantic analysis of first-order sentential logic.

It was a flash of psychological insight into the conditions under which a mind most readily accumulates knowledge [...] For a few years he supposed himself to be convinced of the truth of " the Bible " as a whole, and even intended to take orders as a clergyman of the English Church.

In semantics, truth conditions are what obtain precisely when a sentence is true.

Understood this way, truth conditions are theoretical entities.

The work explores how man came to be an object of knowledge, arguing that all periods of history have possessed certain underlying conditions of truth that constituted what was acceptable as scientific discourse.

It then develops its central thesis: all periods of history have possessed specific underlying conditions of truth that constituted what could be expressed as discourse ( for example art, science, culture, etc .).

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

The second involves something deeper, but its characteristic form focuses on a shift in policy for the community, not in the truth on which the community rests.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.

But if any realism and feeling for truth remain in the General Assembly, it is time for men of courage to measure the magnitude of the failure and urge some new approach.

It is rather that introducing them into social analysis reflects not so much a search for truth as for certainty.

Even as the conviction of truth roared through him, shattering his last hope of safety, he was reaching to release the hand brake, to head up the road for home, doing her bidding.

And the truth is what you've come for, is it not??

Yet for better or for worse, the truth of the matter is that most American Catholic colleges do not owe their existence to general Catholic support but rather to the initiative, resourcefulness and sacrifices of individual religious communities.

As for coming back here -- well, I'll tell you the truth, I didn't even know where I was when I came to.

With her eyes Dolores dared him for the truth, ready to begin: It's a little contest --

Clytia, jealous of her sister because she wanted Apollo for herself, told Orchamus the truth, betraying her sister's trust and confidence in her.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

supremum ) of the truth degrees of the instances of the quantified subformula.

An alternative to Tarskian ( model theoretic ) semantics is proposed for some uses where " the truth conditions for quantified formuli are given purely in terms of truth with no appeal to domains of interpretation ".

Seen in this way, the demand that policy rely only on what is proven to be " scientific truth " would be a prescription for policy paralysis and amount in practice to advocacy of acceptance of all of the quantified and unquantified costs and risks associated with policy inaction.

In modern model theory, it follows immediately for the truth conditions for quantified sentences:

The completeness of the Boolean algebra is required to define truth values for quantified formulas.