Truth Emergence Quotes

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.