Word: untruth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reason is not itself the source of truth, Henry believes, but rather an "instrument" given by God to discover the truth that God has communicated. Without reason, man "could never intelligibly discriminate God from the not-God, right from wrong, truth from untruth." Unlike many Evangelicals, Henry therefore insists that the Bible must be open to the tests of logical consistency and coherence...
...flat untruth. According to the American Bar Association, only half of U.S. lawyers earn less than $20,000 to $25,000 a year...
...years later. Repeatedly the author writes a scene that the reader is expected to follow in good faith, only to have Matthew, a chronic and helpless liar, admit that nothing of the sort ever happened. Then the incident is retold in terms of richer and yet more baroque untruth...
...because of its very gravity, McCarthy's charge, if false, becomes perhaps the most irresponsible untruth he has ever spoken. And until he can show there is a member of the Faculty who is a Communist (he has never said Furry is one), his charge is wholly unacceptable...
...book, with a working title of Truth and Untruth, "charges Nixon with mishandling the public trust" and shows "low administration power has gotten out of hand and how little the public and the Congress are keeping the administration honest." Diane Newstadter, senior editor of Simon and Schuster, said yesterday...