Sentences with phrase «lay claim to truth»
What authority does he have to lay claim to truth?
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It is not a matter of «spiritual - mindedness» or «certain emotions and desires» but of the mind and heart laying claim to truths.
Peter Berger has argued that pluralism breeds a philosophical relativism in which the average person stands confused as to whether any single voice among the contending options lays claim to the truth.
The second scene is not quite so well attested historically, for it can hardly rest on the report of reliable witnesses, and yet it lays claim to the truth of the inner situation.
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insisted that his only claim to being the wisest man in Greece lay in the fact that he knew nothing, while everyone else was in the same boat, but claimed to have the truth.
Negotiation took the place of debate, and to lay claim upon truth on behalf of one's own religion violated the rules of good conduct.»
It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth.
Even a modest success can be a little piece of truth we can lay claim to.
«The table project arises out of the realisation that the problems and conflicts created by people who lay exclusive claim to absolute truth for themselves are the central theme of our times.