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The Truth

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780297860235

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Is the truth really what we make it? From the inimitable Michael Palin, a warm and intelligent novel about good intentions and human frailty. 'A feel-good story leaving the reader on a real high' OBSERVER Keith Mabbut has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to pen the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian. Feeling that his life has reached a crossroad, he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search to find out the real story behind the legend takes Mabbut to the lush landscapes and environmental hotspots of India. The more he discovers about Melville, the more he admires him - and the more he connects with an idealist who wanted to make a difference. But is his quarry really who he claims to be? As Keith discovers, the truth can be whatever we make it... 'THE TRUTH is the perfect example of [Palin's] literary brilliance' STYLIST 'An ingeniously plotted book, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Musical Truth

Author : Jeffrey Boakye
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780571366507

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Musical Truth by Jeffrey Boakye Pdf

Music can carry the stories of history like a message in a bottle. Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy . . . Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how? This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history, and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists who performed them. This book redefines British history, the Empire and postcolonialism, and will invite you to think again about the narratives and key moments in history that you have been taught up to now. Thrilling, urgent, entertaining and thought-provoking, this beautifully illustrated companion to modern black music is a revelation and a delight. 'Engaging and accomplished . . . perfectly judged for young readers.' Guardian

Theories of Truth

Author : Richard L. Kirkham
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0262277190

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Surveys all of the major theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars.

Truth and Predication

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0674030222

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This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.

Changing Signs of Truth

Author : Crystal L. Downing
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866854

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Changing Signs of Truth by Crystal L. Downing Pdf

Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.

Why Leaders Lie

Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199975457

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Presents an analysis of the lying behavior of political leaders, discussing the reasons why it occurs, the different types of lies, and the costs and benefits to the public and other countries that result from it, with examples from the recent past.

A Knock on the Door

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887555381

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A Knock on the Door by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences of residential schools and released several reports based on 7000 survivor statements and five million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well as a solid grounding in secondary sources. A Knock on the Door, published in collaboration with the National Research Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, gathers material from the several reports the TRC has produced to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools in a concise and accessible package that includes new materials to help inform and contextualize the journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked upon. Survivor and former National Chief of the Assembly First Nations, Phil Fontaine, provides a Foreword, and an Afterword introduces the holdings and opportunities of the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, home to the archive of recordings, and documents collected by the TRC. As Aimée Craft writes in the Afterword, knowing the historical backdrop of residential schooling and its legacy is essential to the work of reconciliation. In the past, agents of the Canadian state knocked on the doors of Indigenous families to take the children to school. Now, the Survivors have shared their truths and knocked back. It is time for Canadians to open the door to mutual understanding, respect, and reconciliation.

Unifying the Philosophy of Truth

Author : Theodora Achourioti,Henri Galinon,José Martínez Fernández,Kentaro Fujimoto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401796736

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Unifying the Philosophy of Truth by Theodora Achourioti,Henri Galinon,José Martínez Fernández,Kentaro Fujimoto Pdf

This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amsterdam), Truth at Work (Paris), Paradoxes of Truth and Denotation (Barcelona) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Oxford). Studying the nature of the concept of ‘truth’ has always been a core role of philosophy, but recent years have been a boom time in the topic. With a wealth of recent conferences examining the subject from various angles, this collection of essays recognizes the pressing need for a volume that brings scholars up to date on the arguments. Offering academics and graduate students alike a much-needed repository of today’s cutting-edge work in this vital topic of philosophy, the volume is required reading for anyone needing to keep abreast of developments, and is certain to act as a catalyst for further innovation and research.

The Truth about Confident Presenting

Author : James S. O'Rourke, IV
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783088836

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The Truth about Confident Presenting by James S. O'Rourke, IV Pdf

Great presenters aren’t born that way. They become great by focusing on their message, the needs of the audience, patterns of organization and the details of presenting. Confident, effective public speaking is not easy, but it’s certainly doable. Everything you need is right here in ‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’.

The Honest Truth

Author : Dan Gemeinhart
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781910002148

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The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart Pdf

Mark has been in and out of hospital his whole life - and he's fed up. So when his cancer returns, he decides he's had enough. Running away with his dog Beau, he sets out to climb a mountain - and it's only when he's left everything behind that Mark realises he has everything to live for.

Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics

Author : Ernest Lepore,Kirk Ludwig,nest Lepore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199290938

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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics by Ernest Lepore,Kirk Ludwig,nest Lepore Pdf

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Saving Truth From Paradox

Author : Hartry Field,Professor of Philosophy Hartry Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199230754

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Saving Truth From Paradox by Hartry Field,Professor of Philosophy Hartry Field Pdf

Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches. Part One examines Tarski's, Kripke>'s, and Lukasiewicz>'s theories of truth, and discusses validity and soundness, and vagueness. Part Two considers a wide range of attempts to resolve the paradoxes within classical logic. In Part Three Field turns to non-classical theories of truth that that restrict excluded middle. He shows that there are theories of this sort in which the conditionals obey many of the classical laws, and that all the semantic paradoxes (not just the simplest ones) can be handled consistently with the naive theory of truth. In Part Four, these theories are extended to the property-theoretic paradoxes and to various other paradoxes, and some issues about the understanding of the notion of validity are addressed. Extended paradoxes, involving the notion of determinate truth, are treated very thoroughly, and a number of different arguments that the theories lead to "revenge problems" are addressed. Finally, Part Five deals with dialetheic approaches to the paradoxes: approaches which, instead of restricting excluded middle, accept certain contradictions but alter classical logic so as to keep them confined to a relatively remote part of the language. Advocates of dialetheic theories have argued them to be better than theories that restrict excluded middle, for instance over issues related to the incompleteness theorems and in avoiding revenge problems. Field argues that dialetheists>' claims on behalf of their theories are quite unfounded, and indeed that on some of these issues all current versions of dialetheism do substantially worse than the best theories that restrict excluded middle.

Cartesian Truth

Author : Thomas C. Vinci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198027300

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Bold and pioneering, this book makes a detailed historical and systematic case that Descartes's theory of knowledge is an elegant and powerful combination of a priori, naturalistic, and dialectical elements meriting serious consideration by both contemporary analytic philosophers and postmodern thinkers. In the course of making this case Thomas Vinci develops a broad reinterpretation of Cartesian thought that unlocks novel solutions to many of the most vexed questions in Cartesian scholarship.

Truth and Realism

Author : Patrick Greenough,Michael Patrick Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199288887

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Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and the culture at large.

Jacques Ranciere: Education, Truth, Emancipation

Author : Charles Bingham,Gert Biesta
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441132161

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Jacques Ranciere: Education, Truth, Emancipation by Charles Bingham,Gert Biesta Pdf

Demonstrates the importance of Ranciere's educational thought and how educational theory needs to be informed by his philosophical project.