presumption of truth

Father McCormick agreed that official teaching should enjoy the presumption of truth and that dissenting views should not be presented as though on an equal footing with the authorized ones.

Furthermore, the analogy of the nineteenth-century movements of assimilation among the Jews - with the establishment of reformed synagogues in the Protestant style - creates a presumption of truth in this version.

When in addition we find a very great uniformity in the messages and an agreement as to details which are not at all in accordance with any pre-existing scheme of thought, then I think the presumption of truth is very strong.