general truth

“The general truth to my music stuff is that I’ve basically, since I started doing shows on a stage anywhere around Seattle, I’ve basically only taken shows that I got invited to do,” Johnson said over a coffee at Ballard staple Hattie’s Hat.

As for conveying any general truth about abortion, rather than specific truths about the gruesome case of Kermit Gosnell — a Philadelphia physician convicted in 2013 of first-degree murder for killing three babies after botched late-term abortions — it doesn’t.

“Mathematical axioms are not axioms of general truth,” Dupin says, to which Reynolds adds: “On this point Poe trumped Euclid.”

A review of the scientific literature on climatic conditions found this general truth: Low humidity and low temperatures reduce the skin’s capacity to serve as a barrier and increase the risk of dermatitis — itchy, dry and often inflamed skin.

Human beings are outliers: we live much longer than other creatures of our size, defying the general truth that smaller animals live shorter lives than bigger ones.