truth claim

noun

Pragmatism.

1. a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.

Example Sentences

Once somebody summons God or faith in a discussion of politics and society as some type of ultimate truth claim or proof there is nothing more to discuss, because you can't win that argument.

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That truth claim reads almost identically to the one that introduces “American Hustle,” which was inspired by the Abscam scandal, a bizarre episode dating back to 1978 involving corrupt American politicians, fake Arab sheikhs and a con man enlisted by the F.B.I.

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The dissenting patient assumed that spirit animals were folklore; you, for all I know, may accept their agency as a truth claim.

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One series of books, which includes "Coronavirus 101: Everything You Should Know to Avoid Illness and Protect Yourself from the Wuhan 2020 Outbreak" and "Coronavirus and Face Masks: The Truth," claim to be co-authored by a Dr. Zoe Gottlieb.

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Now let’s make a big, improvable, subjective truth claim: “Woman” has a more interesting range of inventory, aesthetically speaking, in its room than “man” does.

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