Sentences with phrase «reasonable standard of truth»

In this volume, Dewey developed an instrumentalist and evolutionist conception of truth, according to which «there is no reasonable standard of truth... except through reference to the specific offices which knowing is called upon to perform in readjusting and expanding the means and ends of life» (SLT x).

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Guess that exempts charters not just from teacher and principal certification requirements, reasonable discipline and suspension policies, honest and full financial reporting, and all sorts of other standard educational requirements, but also from truth in testing.

By that we mean not merely evidence which might be true and to a considerable extent probably is true, but, as the learned trial judge put it, «evidence which is so convincing in truth and manifestly reliable that it reaches the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt».»