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Example sentences for "general truths"

  • It consists in ascribing the character of general truths to all propositions which are true in every instance that we happen to know of.

  • The obscurer laws of nature were discovered by means of it, but the more obvious ones must have been understood and assented to as general truths before it was ever heard of.

  • General Truths hardly to be understood, but in verbal Propositions.

  • Mills says of Inductive Reasoning: "The inductive method of the ancients consisted in ascribing the character of general truths to all propositions which are true in all the instances of which we have knowledge.

  • General truths of this kind are not intuitive, by any means, but are based upon our own experience or the experience of others.

  • This process, he says, "consists in ascribing the nature of general truths to all propositions which are true in every instance that we happen to know of.

  • Hence, if there is any knowledge of general truths at all, there must be some knowledge of general truths which is independent of empirical evidence, i.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general causes; general discharge; general education; general election; general exercise; general feeling; general judgment; general knowledge; general laugh; general nature; general notion; general pacification; general paralysis; general peace; general proposition; general results; general return; general rising; general society; general statement; general tone; general view; generally adequate; generally recognised; generally speaking; thy name