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According to the positive-instance approach, an observation sentence is evidence for a universal hypothesis if the sentence describes a positive instance of this hypothesis. [ 41 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] For example, the observation that "this swan is white" is an instance of the universal hypothesis that "all swans are white".
The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776. [1] It reads: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life ...
An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀξίωμα (axíōma), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident'.
Empirical evidence is evidence obtained through sense experience or experimental procedure. It is of central importance to the sciences and plays a role in various other fields, like epistemology and law. There is no general agreement on how the terms evidence and empirical are to be defined. Often different fields work with quite different ...
A famous claim of the self-evidence of a moral truth is in the United States Declaration of Independence, which states, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said on X that Trump’s sentence was “a joke and a disgrace." "This witch hunt and ruling,” Blackburn added, “was an insult to the American people."
A Georgia man was sentenced to nearly 500 years in prison over two years after he was arrested for breeding and training over 100 pit bulls for illegal dog fighting.. On Thursday, Vincent Lemark ...
A truism is a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be hardly worth mentioning, except as a reminder or as a rhetorical or literary device, and is the opposite of a falsism. [1] In philosophy, a sentence which asserts incomplete truth conditions for a proposition may be regarded as a truism. [2]