An indicative protasis with #sī# is often used to assume a general truth as a proof either for another general truth, or for a particular fact.
In deduction we begin with a general truth, which is already proven or provisionally assumed, and seek to connect it with some particular case by means of a middle term, or class of objects, known to be equally connected with both.
The air above this radiator is rising is a particular truth, but heated air rises is a general truth.
To notice this water rising in a tube as heat is being applied, is a particular experience; to know that liquids are expanded by heat is a general truth.
Finally the mind is supposed to synthesise these common characteristics into a general notion, or concept, in the conceptual process, and into a general truth if the process is inductive.
The faculty of thought produces in contact with sense perceptions that which manifests itself as true nature, as a general truth.
The human mind is a universal instrument, the special productions of which all belong to general truth.
Whoever feels the desire to bring logical order into his consciousness, must know that the finite and infinite, the relative and the absolute, the special truths and the one general truth, are contained in one another.
Whewell thinks it improper to apply the term Induction to any operation not terminating in the establishment of a general truth.
Deduction derives a particular truth from a general truth; Induction derives a general truth from particular truths.
The proposition sounds reasonable, and few will feel disposed to dispute it at first, but a little consideration will show that while some good institutions may well be united, it is not a general truth that all should be so.
As we have said, Deductive Reasoning is the process of discovering particular truths from a general truth.
What relations, then, can be determined between concrete facts or phenomena (physical or mental) with the greatest certainty of general truth; and what axioms are there that sanction mediate inferences concerning those relations?
It was a general truth, (known to the party who observed the bones) a truth inducted from a number of facts that poor people could not afford to luxuriate on chickens.
Unless this distinction is observed, recourse must be had to the expedient of calling a fact a particular truth, and an induction from facts a general truth.
Whenever Burke states a general truth it forms a part of what?
Induction includes arguments that proceed from individual cases to establish a general truth.
Deduction comprises arguments that proceed from a general truth to establish the proposition in specific instances, or groups of instances.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general truth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
