truth claim
nounPragmatism.
a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
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The intellectualist accounts of truth have all failed to make this vital distinction between 'truth-claim' and validated truth.
Pragmatism | D.L. MurrayThe correspondence theory, then, does not test the truth-claim of the assertion; it only gives a fresh definition of it.
Pragmatism | D.L. MurrayThus, once again, we find that an account of truth-claim is being foisted on us in place of a description of truth-testing.
Pragmatism | D.L. MurrayBelief may even be a condition of the success of the truth claim.
The Problem of Truth | H. Wildon CarrIt shows that the good aimed at by a "truth claim" is only attainable by the exercise of the will to believe.
The Problem of Truth | H. Wildon Carr
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