Some articles on truth claims:
... Philosopher Paul Chamberlain says it is logically erroneous to assert that positive truth claims bear a burden of proof while negative truth claims do not ... He says that all truth claims bear a burden of proof, and that like Mother Goose and the tooth fairy, the teapot bears the greater burden not because of its ...
... One major division of truth claims is that between positive and negative truth claims ... Positive truth claims proclaim the existence of an object or entity ... Negative truth claims are the opposite and proclaim the non-existence of an object or entity ...
... Many religions make truth claims that are mutually exclusive ... dialogue and the full participation in society than the explicit or implicit truth claims of secular ideologies ... cultures and social groups is often dialogue across opposing truth claims and world views ...
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