It is merely a matter of applying an agreed-upon set of rules (for instance, that any thing is equal to itself, or that if something is true for all members of a set of objects, it is true for any one specific object) to a set of agreed-upon structures, such as sets of objects.
"The notion of a 'graveyard of empires' is actually a false extrapolation from something that is true -- that there is tactical and strategic difficulty, " Porter says.
And it's just - it's important to try to sort out all that rhetoric and really just get down to whether something is true or not.
Cavendish Corporate Finance, a British merger-and-acquisitions boutique, hopes that something similar is true in the business world.
The Clintons were then, and are now, absolute masters at saying something that is either true, or impossible to prove false when dissected down.
Instead, the Romney folks have taken some valid studies and clearly obliterated the truth contained in the effort to make us believe something that is not true.
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Really quickly, is that something that rings true in Illinois?
What is also true is they need to do something.
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When something silly is taken for true, challenge those who believe as well those who mislead.
Cognitive distortions, first proposed by Aaron Beck, are ways that our mind convinces us of something that is not really true.
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"True fandom is something like a cult that brainwashes you where you are unwilling to see the reality of the person you admire, " Lawrence said.
If this is true then there is something terribly, terribly wrong with TSA procedures.
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It is true that ambiguity is something that all stories about the Big Universal Questions must ultimately embrace.
"Receiving my county cap is a dream come true and something I have worked incredibly hard for, " 26-year-old Tomlinson said.
There is the classic definition from Michael Kinsley 30 years ago describing a gaffe as when a politician says something true that he really believes, but is offensive to certain voter groups, i.e. a Democratic politician in the 1980s saying that Japanese cars were better than American cars.
And the NBA should never sign on to something before knowing it if is true or not.
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The same is true when it comes to something like the electricity grid.
True, Pitch Black is something of a Loki figure, and at times I half expected Thor to come thundering in to take him off for judgment in Asgard.
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Such hacking is, nevertheless, a useful reminder of an old adage: if something looks too good to be true, it probably is.
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It is a commonplace, but one that most of us ignore: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Of course, if this is true the game runs up against something of a cliche in the process.
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So maybe something tried and true like paper is the best way.
Anytime I come across something that I think is too good to be true, I get nervous.
But I brought on some of the stress, and health issues, myself, because at that time I still believed something no longer true: that knowledge is power.
This holds true even when the interviewer himself is enjoying something a little stronger.
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As part of the effort, it's starting something called the "true performance initiative" which is intended to help customers more accurately judge a chip's performance.
No other publisher has been so willing to assert, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that the digital poses no true threat to print, that the Web is something that can safely be ignored.
They need to remember that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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