According to Frege the reference of a sentence is a truth value ; for Husserl it is a " state of affairs.

#* This is done by first noting that a sentence such as is either refutable or has some model in which it holds ; this model is simply assigning truth values to the subpropositions from which B is built.

It is easy to check that the sentence must receive at least one of the n truth values ( and not a value that is not one of the n ).

Alfred Tarski diagnosed the paradox as arising only in languages that are " semantically closed ", by which he meant a language in which it is possible for one sentence to predicate truth ( or falsehood ) of another sentence in the same language ( or even of itself ).

The analysis of the truth and provability of " G " is a formalized version of the analysis of the truth of the liar sentence.

In logic, a logical connective ( also called a logical operator or a truth function ) is a symbol or word used to connect two or more sentences ( of either a formal or a natural language ) in a grammatically valid way, such that the sense of the compound sentence produced depends only on the original sentences.

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

The realist may claim that this sentence is only meaningful and expresses a truth because there is an individual, Djivan Gasparyan, who possesses a certain quality, musicianship.

In logic, the semantic principle ( or law ) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition ( of a theory under inspection ) has exactly one truth value, either true or false.

) The reason for his restriction was that languages that contain their own truth predicate will contain paradoxical sentences like the Liar: This sentence is not true.

Notice that truth never gets defined for sentences like This sentence is false, since it was not in the original subset and does not predicate truth of any sentence in the original or any subsequent set.

Near the end of the tale, Attaf is given a death sentence for a crime he didn't commit but Harun, knowing the truth from what he has read in the book, prevents this and has Attaf released from prison.

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

More formally, we can think of a truth condition as what makes for the truth of a sentence in an inductive definition of truth ( for details, see the semantic theory of truth ).

; Sententia quae in rem iudicatam transit, pro veritate habetur: When a definitive sentence is declared, it is considered to be the truth.

Engel's version of the correspondence theory of truth explains that what makes a sentence true is that it corresponds to a fact.

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

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

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.

and Vincent Berger learns that political ambition is more apt to hide than to reveal the truth about men.

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

The relinquishing by philosophy of pretentious claims to empirical priority gives it an ability to treat problems of meaning and truth which in the past it was unable to examine because of its missionary attitude to knowledge of more humble sorts.

The ideal of the kouros ( a beardless, athletic youth ), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more.

Simplicity and natural expression had hitherto characterized Canova's style ; with these were now united more exalted conceptions of grandeur and of truth.

The term " conspiracy theory " is itself the object of a type of conspiracy theory, which argues that those using the term are manipulating their audience to disregard the topic under discussion, either in a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth, or as dupes of more deliberate conspirators.

The truth is likely more political.

: Dianetics is nothing more than an example of pseudoscience trying to legitimize itself ... Hubbard, had he indeed been a scientist, would have known that truth is not built on axioms, and facts cannot be found from some a-priori knowledge.

Once a proposition is asserted to be a self-evident truth, there is not much more to say about it.

He later stated, in the Constitutional Convention, that " the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men.

This concept of asha versus the druj should not be confused with the good-versus-evil battle evident in western religions, for although both forms of opposition express moral conflict, the asha versus druj concept is more systemic and less personal, representing, for instance, chaos ( that opposes order ); or " uncreation ", evident as natural decay ( that opposes creation ); or more simply " the lie " ( that opposes truth, righteousness ).

More than even film truth, Man with a Movie Camera, was supposed to be a way to make those in the Soviet Union more efficient in their actions.

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.

For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.

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.

Will argument and debate decide its truth or falsity??

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.

There the community, faced with the need to formulate policy on the level of absolute justice, can find the answer to its problem in the absolute truth which it holds as partially experienced.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

It is possible to prove many theorems using neither the axiom of choice nor its negation ; such statements will be true in any model of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ( ZF ), regardless of the truth or falsity of the axiom of choice in that particular model.

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

" Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria of 1878 devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but concluded " in truth little is known among the blacks respecting its form, covering or habits ; they appear to have been in such dread of it as to have been unable to take note of its characteristics.

The Three Witnesses testified to having seen an angel present the gold plates, and to having heard God bear witness to its truth.

In anticipation of its eventual proof, some have proceeded to develop further proofs which are contingent on the truth of this conjecture.