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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.
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.
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.
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.
The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.
Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.
The eternal truth is that progress -- due, as it always is, to individual creative genius -- is just as dependent on freedom as human life is dependent on the beating of the heart.
And Grandma isn't strong enough to take on something like that, and to tell you the truth neither am I ''.
Even to herself Helva sounded a little self-pitying but the truth was she was lonely, sitting on the darkened field.
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.
Whatever the truth behind this, the young king was forced to depend heavily on his Ptolemaic support and even struck portraits with the characteristic features of king Ptolemy I.
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.
He declares at the start: " No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand ; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty.
This contrasts with the synthetic approach of Euclidean geometry, which treats certain geometric notions as primitive, and uses deductive reasoning based on axioms and theorems to derive truth.
and later goes on to speak of their having " an infallible gift of truth " veritatis certum.
This is our doctrine of apostolic succession " neither depends on, nor is secured by, " an official succession of ministers, whether bishops or presbyters, from apostolic times, but rather by fidelity to apostolic truth ".
While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.
His theological works argued that religious experience is a fundamentally human impulse, not just a Jewish one, and that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth.
If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.

truth and each
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
I lived in this onward-driving contest where each day overcame a new difficulty, gained a new truth, or banished a previous error ''.
To solve this instance of the decision problem we must determine whether there is a truth value ( TRUE or FALSE ) we can assign to each of the variables ( x < sub > 1 </ sub > through x < sub > 4 </ sub >) such that the entire expression is TRUE.
They swore that they would " in the fear and reverence of our Almighty God, mutually and severally promise amongst ourselves and each to profess and practice one truth according to that most perfect rule, the foundation whereof is ever lasting love.
A property assigns to each object, in every possible world, a truth value ( either true or false ).
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:
To avoid self-contradiction, it is necessary when discussing truth values to envision levels of languages, each of which can predicate truth ( or falsehood ) only of languages at a lower level.
For a given set of k-tuples, a truth value is assigned to each k-tuple according to whether the property does or does not hold.
In his book De Philosophia Cartesiana ( 1668 ) Bekker argued that theology and philosophy each had their separate terrain and that Nature can no more be explained from Scripture than can theological truth be deduced from Nature.
Unitarian Universalists believe that each person is free to search for his or her own personal truth on issues, such as the existence, nature, and meaning of life, deities, creation, and afterlife.
UUs support each person's search for truth and meaning in concepts of spirituality.
' Education, truth and virtue ' must be disseminated to such an extent that the ' concept of mankind ' takes on a great and dignified form in each individual ( GS, I, p. 284 ).
In The Music of Arthur Sullivan ( 1959 ), Hughes quotes four extracts from Pirates, saying that if hearing each out of context one might attribute it to Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gounod or Bizet respectively, " yet on learning the truth one would kick oneself for not having recognised Sullivan's touch in all four.
Given " mappings " of input variables into membership functions and truth values, the microcontroller then makes decisions for what action to take, based on a set of " rules ", each of the form:
Notice how each rule provides a result as a truth value of a particular membership function for the output variable.
If the error ranges from-1 to + 1, with the analog-to-digital converter used having a resolution of 0. 25, then the input variable's fuzzy set ( which, in this case, also applies to the output variable ) can be described very simply as a table, with the error / delta / output values in the top row and the truth values for each membership function arranged in rows beneath:
A point on that scale has three " truth values "— one for each of the three functions.
To Socrates, truth, not aretē, was the greater good, and each person should, above all else, seek truth to guide one's life.
Underhill's multilingual studies of key concepts, truth, love, hate & war, ( in ' Ethnolinguistics & Cultural Concepts ', Cambridge UP 2012 ) investigate the uniqueness of each of these concepts in different languages ( English, French, German and Czech ).
It was understood that when the two were finally reconciled, each would correct the other's laws and faults ; they would live side by side and share in common all the riches of the land and join their faiths in one religion that would establish the truth of life in a spirit of universal brotherhood.

truth and side
The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.
Because Prolog allows impure predicates, checking the truth value of certain special predicates may have some deliberate side effect, such as printing a value to the screen.
Because of a number of undesirable side effects, scopolamine was shortly disqualified as a truth drug.
To Cohen, the idea is that humans debate like lawyers: they often commit to one side of an argument and converse until the truth is discovered.
Intense as were his Christian convictions, he could sanction nothing that would do deliberate violence to the convictions of another ; and he had a faith that Christian truth would eventually prevail on its own merits, and need never fear to be set side by side with the truths that other religious systems contain.
Finding that he was suspected ( probably with truth ) of an intention to bring the soldiers over to the royalist side, he escaped to France.
El Día ’ s morning headline on October 3, 1968 read as followed: “ Criminal Provocation at the Tlatelolco Meeting Causes Terrible Bloodshed .” The government-controlled media dutifully reported the Mexican government ’ s side of the events that night, but the truth eventually emerged.
According to Jesus, as we find it written in John 18: 37, Jesus thus describes his mission: " came into the world ... to bear witness to the truth ; and all who are on the side of truth listen to voice ", to which Pilate famously replied, " What is truth?
It was his aunts, on his father's side, who told him " the truth " when he was 14.
Gloucester assures Eleanor that as long as he has truth on his side, his enemies cannot destroy him: " I must offend before I be attainted ,/ And had I twenty times so many foes ,/ And each of them had twenty times their power ,/ All these could not procure me any scathe / So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless " ( 2. 4. 60 – 64 ).
In the episode, she travelled to the Tuscany region of Italy and the island of Elba to uncover the truth about the 100-year-old murder of her great-grandfather, Francesco Leopoldo Bianchi, on her mother's side of the family.
In truth, Haman's goal was to play the Titans and the AEUG against each other, so that whichever side emerged victorious would be sufficiently weakened, allowing her forces to overcome them and seize control of the Earth sphere.
Since every formula in the antecedent ( the left side ) must be true to conclude the truth of at least one formula in the succedent ( the right side ), adding formulas to either side results in a weaker sequent, while removing them from either side gives a stronger one.
Like other Whig histories, Whig history of science tends to divide historical actors into " good guys ," who are on the side of truth ( as we now know it ) and " bad guys ," who opposed the emergence of these truths because of ignorance or bias.
Most assume they resigned due to financial difficulties but the truth is that the Club felt they could not attract enough support to justify a League side.

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