truth claim


nounPragmatism.
  1. a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.

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How to use truth claim in a sentence

  • The intellectualist accounts of truth have all failed to make this vital distinction between 'truth-claim' and validated truth.

    Pragmatism | D.L. Murray
  • The correspondence theory, then, does not test the truth-claim of the assertion; it only gives a fresh definition of it.

    Pragmatism | D.L. Murray
  • Thus, 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. Murray
  • Belief may even be a condition of the success of the truth claim.

    The Problem of Truth | H. Wildon Carr
  • It 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