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Truth and is
I have, within the past fifty years, come out of all uncertainty into a faith which is a dominating conviction of the Truth and about which I have not a shadow of doubt.
The truth -- the Eternal Truth -- is not transmittable by words.
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.
A Passion for Truth is an adaptation of this larger work.
Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.
" Truth ," as he defines it, is a " system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation, and operation of statements " which has a " circular relation " with systems of power.
Spirit is immortal Truth ; matter is mortal error.
Our bread, ' which cometh down from heaven ,' is Truth.
:: Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God,that is, the triply divine Principle, Love.
It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error.
" The Sydney newspaper Truth on 5 January 1921 expressed a similar view ; " For the true explanation of these fairy photographs what is wanted is not a knowledge of occult phenomena but a knowledge of children.
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.
Cnoc Fírinne ( meaning ' Hill of Truth ') takes its name from Donn, who is said to forewarn the local people of bad weather by gathering up rain clouds around him on the hill.
This hearkens back to the conception of the Rig Veda that " Ekam Sat ," ( Truth Is One ), of the idea that Brahman is " Sacchidananda " ( Truth-Consciousness-Bliss ).
* Avi used this style of constructing a story in Nothing But the Truth ( 1991 ), where the plot is told using only documents, letters, and scripts.
The motto of The North Star was " Right is of no Sex – Truth is of no Color – God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.
The third Noble Truth is the truth of the cessation of dukkha.
It is Nishijima's view that each Noble Truth correlates to a different view in his theory.
# The First Noble Truth is idealism or spiritualism
# The Second Noble Truth is materialism
# The Third Noble Truth is action

Truth and concordance
Peirce defines truth as follows: " Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.
Peirce emphasized fallibilism, considered the assertion of absolute certainty a barrier to inquiry, and in 1901 defined truth as follows: " Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth .".

Truth and abstract
* Long, J., Gray, J., An Enquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections, Shewing how Each arises from Association, with an account of the Entrance of Moral Evil to the world, to which are added Some remarks on the independent Scheme which deduces all Obligation on God ’ s part and Mans from certain abstract Relations, Truth, & c. Written for the Use of the young Gentlemen at the Universities, W. Wood, ( Lincoln ), 1747 reprint: pp. 281 – 476 in McReynolds, P. ( ed ), Four Early Works on Motivation, Scholar ’ s Facsimiles & Reprints, ( Gainesville ), 1969
* Radiya is Yatima's first mentor in abstract mathematics and in exploration of the " Truth Mines ", Konishi ’ s metaphoric representation of the world of mathematical theorems.
Concrete objective meaning: ( a ) Truth signifies a proposition that has the attribute truth in the abstract objective meaning.
For example, Plato's abstract concept of " the Truth " could only be expressed in Latin as literally " that which is always true ".
The Truth of Life is not an abstract and indifferent truth ; on the contrary, it is that which is most essential for man, as it is this alone that can lead him to salvation in his inner identification with it and in becoming the Son of God, rather than losing himself in the world.

Truth and statement
An example of correspondence theory is the statement by the Thirteenth Century philosopher / theologian Thomas Aquinas: Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus (" Truth is the equation adequation of things and intellect "), a statement which Aquinas attributed to the Ninth Century neoplatonist Isaac Israeli.
In A Social History of Truth ( 1994 ), for example, Steven Shapin makes the largely sociological argument that, in 17th-century England, the mode of sociability known as civility became the primary discourse of truth ; for a statement to have the potential to be considered true, it had to be expressed according to the rules of civil society.
Take, for example, Jesus's statement that " I am the Way, the Truth and the Life "-if God is Truth, God cannot have the power to be untruth-the same holds for being the way and being the life and several other Biblical statements about God and Christ.
As an institution of advanced learning, Universidad Diego Portales has as its mission statement the vision “ To discover the Space-Time of Truth, Goodness and Beauty in the human being, in society and in nature ”.
Truth consists of the whole process, separating out thesis, antithesis or synthesis as a stand-alone statement results in something that is in some way or other untrue.
For example, a statement from a lead article in the February 1939 edition of The Plain Truth, about a coming world war, said this:
In 1916, Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies in the past claiming to possess the ultimate Truth.
" The recovery of this money is yet another warning to contractors that the Truth in Negotiations Act's information disclosure requirements will be strictly and sternly enforced ," Frank Hunger, assistant attorney general, said in a statement.
Ayer's defense of positivism in Language, Truth and Logic, which contains his statement of emotivism.
On October 26, 2004, she was among 100 Americans and 40 family members of those who were killed on 9 / 11 who signed the 9 / 11 Truth Movement statement, calling for new investigations into unexplained aspects of the 9 / 11 events.
On October 26, 2004, she was among 100 Americans and 40 family members of those who were killed on 9 / 11 who signed the 9 / 11 Truth Movement statement, calling for new investigations of unexplained aspects of the 9 / 11 events.
Third, it contains the Standard of Truth, the mission statement for missionaries:
To Kenner, the problem with Keats's Beauty and Truth statement arises out of the reader's inability to distinguish between the poet, his reflections on the urn, and any possible statement made by the urn.
Gillman was one of the members of the Conservative movement's commission which produced Emet Ve-Emunah (" Truth and Faith "), the first official statement of beliefs of Conservative Judaism.
Erik Smith, president of the Media Fund, would later issue a statement pointing out that the FEC settlement did not find his group in violation of the law. The FEC had already fined a number of the other major 527s for illegal spending during the 2004 elections, including the Democratic-leaning groups MoveOn. org and the George Soros-backed America Coming Together, as well as the Republican-supporting groups Progress for America Voter Fund and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

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