Understanding Truth

Understanding Truth
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 0195123352
ISBN-13 : 9780195123357
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Truth by : Scott Soames

The author of this text explores the notion of truth and its role in our ordinary thought, as well as in logical, philosophical and scientific theories.

A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible

A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible
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Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780310577966
ISBN-13 : 0310577969
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible by : Tim Challies

Capitalizing on the increasing popularity of infographics and a growing interest in accessible, understandable teaching on theology, Visual Theology Guide to the Bible by Tim Challies and Josh Byers teaches timeless, historic, biblical truth in a fresh and vibrant way that that will capture your interest and ignite your imagination.

Post-Truth

Post-Truth
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780262345989
ISBN-13 : 0262345986
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Post-Truth by : Lee McIntyre

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.” What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

Conceptions of Truth

Conceptions of Truth
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : 9780199241316
ISBN-13 : 0199241317
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Conceptions of Truth by : Kunne

Truth is one of the most debated topics in philosophy; Wolfgang Künne presents a comprehensive critical examination of all major theories. Conceptions of Truth is organized around a flow-chart comprising sixteen key questions, ranging from 'Is truth a property?' to 'Is truth epistemically constrained?' Künne expounds and engages with the ideas of many thinkers, from Aristotle and the Stoics, to Continental analytic philosophers like Bolzano, Brentano, andKotarbinski, to such leading figures in current debates as Dummett, Putnam, Wright, and Horwich. He explains many important distinctions (between varieties of correspondence, for example, between different conceptions of making true, between various kinds of eternalism and temporalism) which have so far been neglected in theliterature. Künne argues that it is possible to give a satisfactory 'modest' account of truth without invoking problematic notions like correspondence, fact, or meaning. And he offers a novel argument to support the realist claim that truth outruns justifiability.The clarity of exposition and the wealth of examples will make Conceptions of Truth an invaluable and stimulating guide for advanced students and scholars in metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language.

Hermeneutics and Truth

Hermeneutics and Truth
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780810111189
ISBN-13 : 0810111187
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Hermeneutics and Truth by : Brice R. Wachterhauser

The claim that all human thought involves "interpretation," that all human thought is in some way relative to a contingent context of cognitive, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic considerations, has become widely accepted, but what we understand by "truth" and how we should best pursue it are questions raised with renewed force once a hermeneutical starting point has been embraced. Brice R. Wachterhauser's collection Hermeneutics and Truth is an attempt to contribute to this conversation. No thinkers have wrestled with the issue of truth and interpretation in more illuminating ways for the Continental tradition of philosophy than Heidegger and Gadamer. Hermeneutics and Truth is a dual focus on Heidegger and Gadamer, but it concentrates primarily on Gadamer's efforts to think through the issue of truth for hermeneutics and only secondarily on Heidegger's thought on this issue.

Truth and Predication

Truth and Predication
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 0674030222
ISBN-13 : 9780674030220
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Truth and Predication by : Donald Davidson

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.

Truth and the Absence of Fact

Truth and the Absence of Fact
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780199241712
ISBN-13 : 0199241716
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Truth and the Absence of Fact by : Hartry Field

Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts.Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three are primarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology. The essays on truth, meaning, and the attitudes show a development from a form of correspondence theory of truth and meaning to a more deflationist perspective.The next set of papers argue that a place must be made in semantics for the idea that there are questions about which there is no fact of the matter, and address the difficulties involved in making sense of this, both within a correspondence theory of truth and meaning, and within a deflationary theory. Two papers argue that there are questions in mathematics about which there is no fact of the mattter, and draw out implications of this for the nature of mathematics. And the final paper arguesfor a view of epistemology in which it is not a purely fact-stating enterprise.This influential work by a key figure in contemporary philosophy will reward the attention of any philosopher interested in language, epistemology, or mathematics.

The Truth

The Truth
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1782110976
ISBN-13 : 9781782110972
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Truth by : Neil Strauss

SOCIOLOGY: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS. NO MORE GAMES. IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH. Neil Strauss made a name for himself advocating freedom, sex and opportunity as the author of The Game. Then he met the woman who forced him to question everything. Neil's search for answers took him from Viagra-laden free-love orgies to sex addiction clinics, from cutting-edge science labs to modern-day harems, and, most terrifying of all, to his own mother. What he discovered changed everything he knew about love, sex, relationships and, ultimately, himself. The Truth may have the same effect on you.

What Truth is

What Truth is
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780198823810
ISBN-13 : 0198823819
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis What Truth is by : Mark Jago

Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.

Be Ye Transformed

Be Ye Transformed
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Publisher : Koinonia House
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 1880532425
ISBN-13 : 9781880532423
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Be Ye Transformed by : Chuck Missler

"Be Ye Transformed is a must-read for anyone who wants to see a positve change in there Christian walk. it not only teaches us how to "mtake every thought captive", renew our minds and put on the Mind O Christ, it also contains an expansion of Nancy's original model of the human personality (i.e., the hidden chambers), which she meticulously crafted fromn teh scriptural pattern of Solomn's Temple. Practicak, field-tested examples from years of ministry makes Be Ye Transformed a classic Christian work." William P. Weltym M. DIV.