Try, Tried is rendered “to try” in the AV in 1Co 3:13; 1Th 2:4; 1Pe 1:7; 1Jo 4:1, see PROVE, No. 1. is rendered “to try” in Heb 11:17; Rev 2:2, Rev 2:10; Rev 3:10. In Act 16:7 it is rendered “assayed;” in Act 24:6, RV, “assayed” (AV, “hath gone about”): see GO, Note (2) … Continue reading “Try, Tried”
Truyns, Charles, D.D
Truyns, Charles, D.D a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order, was born in Belgium in 1813. In 1837 he came to the United States, and was an officer of the St. Louis University and of St. Charles College, Louisiana. For some time he was engaged in missionary work among the Indians, and, later in … Continue reading “Truyns, Charles, D.D”
Truth-value
Truth-value On the view that every proposition is either true or false, one may speak of a proposition as having one of two truth-values, viz. truth or falsehood. This is the primary meaning of the term truth-value, but generalizations have been consideied according to which there are more than two truth-values — see propositional calculus, … Continue reading “Truth-value”
Truth-table method
Truth-table method See logic, formal, 1, and propositional calculus, many-valued. C. S. Peirce, On the algebra of logic, American Journal of Mathematics, vol. 7 (1885), pp. 180-202; reprinted in his Collected Papers, vol. 3. J. Lukasiewicz, Logika dwuwartosciowa, Przeglad Filozoficzny. vol. 23 (1921), pp. 189-205. L. L. Post, Introduction to a general theory of elementary … Continue reading “Truth-table method”
Truth, Spirit of
Truth, Spirit of (Anglo-Saxon: gast) The Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. He is the Spirit of the Father and of the Son and proceeds alike from Both, as from one common principle. He is the personal infinite term of the eternal act of mutual love of the Father and the Son; hence His name … Continue reading “Truth, Spirit of”
Truth Societies, Catholic
Truth Societies, Catholic This article will treat of Catholic Truth Societies in the chronological order of their establishment in various countries. IN ENGLAND The Catholic Truth Society has had two periods of existence. It was initiated by Dr. (afterwards Cardinal) Vaughan when he was Rector of St. Joseph’s Missionary College, and, in the two or … Continue reading “Truth Societies, Catholic”
Truth, semantical
Truth, semantical Closely connected with the name relation (q.v.) is the property of a propositional formula (sentence) that it expresses a true proposition (or if it has free variables, that it expresses a true proposition for all values of these variables). As in the case of the name relation, a notation for the concept of … Continue reading “Truth, semantical”
Truth-function
Truth-function is either (1) a function (q.v.) from propositions to propositions such that the truth-value of the value of the function is uniquely determined by the truth-values alone of the arguments; or (2) simply a function from truth-values to truth-values. — A.C. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Truth, Friends of
Truth, Friends of A group of religious bodies, including: the Orthodox Society of Friends; the Hicksite Society of Friends, dissenters under the leadership of Elias Hicks; the Wilburite Orthodox Conservative Friends, separatists under the leadership of John Wilbur; and the Religious Society of Friends of Philadelphia who seceded from the Wilburites. The religious movement known … Continue reading “Truth, Friends of”
Truth-Frequency
Truth-Frequency (Prob.) See Probability, sec. D (III). Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy