How To Use Falsity In A Sentence

  • His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome, but threaten to undermine it.
  • In every litigated case, the parties disagree about whether the falsity is literal or only implicit. Archive 2009-06-01
  • I like how the court thinks; I am increasingly of the opinion that the multifactor confusion test, though it has its weaknesses, is superior to the rigid and ultimately insupportable falsity/misleadingness distinction. Archive 2009-06-01
  • I think it has to do with his hate for falsity in people.
  • He has persuaded John that every socially prescribed role entraps one in falsity, the clamour of petty needs, and graspingness.
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  • Before we vote your petition, yes or no, we must explicate the nature of this falsity. THE BROKEN GOD
  • The question is whether it forfeits that protection by the falsity of some of its factual statements and by its alleged defamation of respondent.
  • The falsity of this assertion would have been found if it had been checked.
  • Mylanta Night Time Strength: first time a court adopted the FTC principle, for Lanham Act purposes, that lack of substantiation is equivalent to falsity. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Literal falsity is a dandy doctrine because it provides a way to end litigation quickly: judicial economy. Archive 2009-06-01
  • We have an alloy whose falsity can be detected only by the most sophisticated tests. KARA KUSH
  • In defamation the falsity of the libel or slander is presumed; but justification is a complete defence.
  • In Brouwerian logic, one can not deduce from the falsity of the non-existence of some object that the object actually exists!
  • Please read on Estonian apocope as but one example showing the falsity of your beliefs since regardless of vocal height, surely these differing vowels converged before being zeroed. The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
  • Unless you get rid of the Lanham Act and the FTC, kicking Kasky out of the running still leaves Nike subject to a plain falsity/misleadingness standard in its ads. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Before we vote your petition, yes or no, we must explicate the nature of this falsity. THE BROKEN GOD
  • But that was just it: his example made Christophe understand that the worst falsity in German art came into it not when the artists tried to express something which they had not felt, but rather when they tried to express the feelings which they did in fact feel -- _feelings which were false_. Jean-Christophe, Volume I
  • Our culture is filled with liars and cheats, those great purveyors of falsity in the government, the media, the shops, and our homes.
  • The denizens of this world are so lost in falsity and nothingness that they convict themselves even in their vain defenses of the disgusting behavior at issue. Matthew Yglesias » Penn Again
  • Because the falsity of such a proposition is inconceivable, you cannot have a clear grasp of its meaning and be in doubt as to its truth.
  • Both Fukuda and Escher's projects contain human vision appearances and human falsity ideas.
  • Mixed with all the nineteenth century theatricalism, the early twentieth-century talent for making movies move, and the overall impression of utter falsity, Unconquered has some authentic flavor of the period. Empire of Dreams
  • I can't deal with every falsity in just one column, so I'll deal with the different parts of his speech over the course of several weeks.
  • And, where intentional infliction is largely duplicative of a defamation claim, it must have the same standards – falsity and requisite intent – otherwise “intentional infliction” could end up like English defamation, where falsity is not a requirement – and no one wantsthat. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Short Essay on Snyder v. Phelps, Part I: The Wisdom of Hustler v. Falwell
  • The final paragraph was cut for space — it's not absolutely necessary, but I liked the comparison: “In opera buffa, it usually ends when all the falsity is discovered,” Ganz goes on, “like the end of ‘Figaro,’ where everything is revealed, and all is happy.” Universal leader
  • The story writes against sensationalism and sentimentality (showing their falsity and shallowness) even as the plot operates in these selfsame terms.
  • Xenophanes was a sceptic who denied that knowledge could be obtained by us humans; at best we merely have beliefs, the truth or falsity of which will remain largely unknown to us.
  • The question is whether it forfeits that protection by the falsity of some of its factual statements and by its alleged defamation of respondent.
  • The Liavek shared-world stories, where one group, originated by Nate Bucklin [markiv1111] believes this to be the case; its truth or falsity is not established. Back on line
  • BTW, actual falsity is not required for a perjury conviction under 18 USC § 1621. The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence
  • It was difficult to convict him of the falsity of his beliefs.
  • Despite the falsity of that claim being widely known, the ‘study’ was published in a serious scientific journal.
  • This writing warns that it uses the very intellectual tools it criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • Some of his true-life stories are sweet and tender but when he really hits home for me is when he is alone talking to himself or lashing out passionately at hypocrisy, arrogance, falsity and materialism.
  • The majority of her work is self portraiture; her aesthetic concerns grew from her fascination with the falsity of appearance.
  • The inference rule of disjunctive syllogism, while truth-preserving, is not falsity-avoiding.
  • In defamation the falsity of the libel or slander is presumed; but justification is a complete defence.
  • The final paragraph was cut for space — it's not absolutely necessary, but I liked the comparison: “In opera buffa, it usually ends when all the falsity is discovered,” Ganz goes on, “like the end of ‘Figaro,’ where everything is revealed, and all is happy.” Archive 2009-01-01
  • Of course, ‘poetic’ is what poets professed to be avoiding in those days and, indeed, throughout history, ‘poetic’ being a form of falsity and artifice peculiar to all preceding generations of poetasters.
  • It was as though the impact of what she said, the sheer rotten falsity of it, had lifted me out of my seat like a powerful ramrod. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • In defamation the falsity of the libel or slander is presumed; but justification is a complete defence.
  • Yet such was her distress I was sorry for her, though I believed it to be rooted and grounded in falsity, and that she had no need to regard with such disapprobation her sister's being indebted to an English gentleman who gave her in all honour the best he had. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
  • argument could not determine its truth or falsity
  • Xenophanes was a sceptic who denied that knowledge could be obtained by us humans; at best we merely have beliefs, the truth or falsity of which will remain largely unknown to us.
  • That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
  • Why has NAD deviated from the courts in treating falsity/puffery? Archive 2009-06-01
  • What is unacceptable is thus that which undermines the totalizing vision; and totalizing visions are inevitably comprised from a facile distinction between truth/falsity, good/evil.
  • In Brouwerian logic, one can not deduce from the falsity of the non-existence of some object that the object actually exists!
  • Such objections as that the accused, at the time of the arraignment, is undergoing a sentence of a general court-martial, or that owing to the long delay in bringing him to trial he is unable to disprove the charge or to defend himself, or that his accuser was actuated by malice or is a person of bad character, or that he was released from restraint upon the charges are not proper subjects for motion prior to plea, however much they may constitute ground for a continuance or affect the questions of the truth or falsity of the charge or of the measure of punishment. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
  • Argument could not determine its truth or falsity.
  • All three elements of perjury [1). belief in falsity, 2). under oath, affirmation or penalty of perjury, and 3). materiality] are matters for a jury to determine. The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence
  • It is utterly important to govern the falsity of accounting information.
  • We can create metaphysical arguments as to their truth or falsity either way, but in everyday epistemic terms cannot help but believe them.
  • Before we vote your petition, yes or no, we must explicate the nature of this falsity. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Before we vote your petition, yes or no, we must explicate the nature of this falsity. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Propositions are contradictory when the truth of one implies the falsity of the other, and conversely.
  • Since names and their signification are entirely arbitrary, such propositions are not, strictly speaking, susceptible of truth or falsity, but only of conformity or disconformity to usage or convention; and all the proof they are capable of, is proof of usage; proof that the words have been employed by others in the acceptation in which the speaker or writer desires to use them. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • Since the alleged falsity here was “referring to lumber from a tree that is not classified as cedar in a scientific or botanical classification” as cedar, Rainbow had engaged in materially related inequitable conduct. Unclean hands, covered with cedar chips
  • Apostate uses the very intellectual tools she criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. The Apostate
  • Our moral judgments not really judgments at all, for they do not express truth or falsity.
  • Ag, I don’t know if I’m just being soppy but whatever the case it’s refreshing to see love stories these days that are able to transcend the mainstream depictions of beautiful falsity.
  • Now, the dictionaries are all at one in suggesting that colourability carries with it a notion of speciousness or sham, falsity, lack of good faith, and that is entirely consistent with the way the authorities have dealt with it.
  • The majority of her work is self portraiture; her aesthetic concerns grew from her fascination with the falsity of appearance.
  • But there's a falsity in the reaction to the disaster that both intrigues and disgusts me.
  • Scorpio is the worst rising sign as it impedes and diminishes the relationship as well as being an indicator that there is falsity and deception involved.
  • We are-each and every one of us-a tangled mass of motives; hope and fear, faith and doubt, simplicity and duplicity, honesty and falsity, openness and guile.
  • And soon, the whole business of confession has become polluted with falsity and madness.
  • Complainants would bear the burden of proving falsity or unfairness.
  • Before we vote your petition, yes or no, we must explicate the nature of this falsity. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Hayley's crimes are petty and dishonourable, a contrast which reveals the falsity of the narrative assumptions Philip makes.
  • The truth or falsity of this indictment is an interesting subject for future historical debate. So What Is the Democrats’ “Plan”?
  • And it is this very falsity that most offends those of us who have left. AFFLICTION

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