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Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact

Author : Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337021
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact written by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre’s possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright. Wallach argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is currently dominated by literary critics, needs a new theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing. Her most provocative claim is that, due to the aesthetic power of literary language, skilled creative writers are uniquely positioned to capture the complexities of another time and another place. Through techniques such as metaphor and irony, memoirists collectively give their readers an empathetic understanding of life during the era of segregation. Although these reminiscences bear certain similarities, it becomes clear that the South as it was remembered by each is hardly the same place.

Closer to Truth

Author : Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closer to Truth written by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty internationally renowned scientists and scholars challenge all manner of current belief, from general consciousness to the Big Bang, in this official companion volume to the groundbreaking new PBS series.

Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation

Author : Roberto Festa
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042016388
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation written by Roberto Festa and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers' philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The present volume focuses on Kuipers' views on confirmation, empirical progress, and truth approximation, as laid down in his From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (Kluwer, 2000). In this book, Kuipers offered a synthesis of Carnap's and Hempel's confirmation theory on the one hand, and Popper's theory of truth approximation on the other. The key element of this synthesis is a sophisticated methodology, which enables the evaluation of theories in terms of their problems and successes (even if the theories are already falsified), and which also fits well with the claim that one theory is closer to the truth than another. Ilkka Niiniluoto, Patrick Maher, John Welch, Gerhard Schurz, Igor Douven, Bert Hamminga, David Miller, Johan van Benthem, Sjoerd Zwart, Thomas Mormann, Jesús Zamora Bonilla, Isabella Burger & Johannes Heidema, Joke Meheus, Hans Mooij, and Diderik Batens comment on these ideas of Kuipers, and many present their own account. The present book also contains a synopsis of From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism. It can be read independently of the second volume of Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers, which is devoted to Kuipers' Structures in Science (2001).

Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited

Author : Theo A. F. Kuipers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319983881
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited written by Theo A. F. Kuipers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years. Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a way to generalize his first theory of nomic truth approximation, viz. by dropping an unnecessarily strong assumption. In particular, he first believed to have to assume that theories were maximally specific in the sense that they did not only exclude certain conceptual possibilities, but also that all non-excluded possibilities were in fact claimed to be nomically possible. Now, he argues that the exclusion claim alone, or for that matter the inclusion claim alone, is sufficient to motivate the formal definition of being closer to the nomic truth. The papers collected here detail this generalized view of nomic truthlikeness or verisimilitude. Besides this, the book presents, in adapted form, the relation with several other topics, such as, domain revision, aesthetic progress, abduction, inference to the best explanation, pragmatic aspects, probabilistic methods, belief revision and epistemological positions, notably constructive realism. Overall, the volume presents profound insight into nomic truth approximation. This idea seeks to determine how one theory can be closer to, or more similar to, the truth about what is nomically, e.g. physically, chemically, biologically, possible than another theory. As a result, it represents the ultimate goal of theory oriented empirical science. Theo Kuipers is the author of Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation (1978), From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000) and Structures in Science (2001). He is the volume-editor of the Handbook on General Philosophy of Science (2007). In 2005 there appeared two volumes of Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers, entitled Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation and Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry.

Conceptions of Truth

Author : Kunne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199241317
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Conceptions of Truth written by Kunne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Likeness to Truth

Author : G. Oddie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400946589
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Likeness to Truth written by G. Oddie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of likeness to truth, like that of truth itself, is fundamental to a realist conception of inquiry. To demonstrate this we need only make two rather modest aim of an inquiry, as an inquiry, is realist assumptions: the truth doctrine (that the the truth of some matter) and the progress doctrine (that one false theory may realise this aim better than another). Together these yield the conclusion that a false theory may be more truthlike, or closer to the truth, than another. It is the aim of this book to give a rigorous philosophical analysis of the concept of likeness to truth, and to examine the consequences, some of them no doubt surprising to those who have been unduly impressed by the (admittedly important) true/false dichotomy. Truthlikeness is not only a requirement of a particular philosophical outlook, it is as deeply embedded in common sense as the concept of truth. Everyone seems to be capable of grading various propositions, in different (hypothetical) situations, according to their closeness to the truth in those situations. And (if my experience is anything to go by) there is remarkable unanimity on these pretheoretical judge ments. This is not proof that there is a single coherent concept underlying these judgements. The whole point of engaging in philosophical analysis is to make this claim plausible.

Arkansas Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arkansas Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zoological Results Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, Collected During the Years 1895, 1896 and 1897

Author : Arthur Willey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Zoological Results Based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, Collected During the Years 1895, 1896 and 1897 written by Arthur Willey and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Truth and the Absence of Fact

Author : Hartry Field
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191529206
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Truth and the Absence of Fact written by Hartry Field and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 argues for 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.

Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact

Author : Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820335029
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact written by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre’s possibilities and limitations. This study articulates an approach to using memoirs as instruments of historical understanding. Jennifer Jensen Wallach applies these principles to a body of memoirs about life in the American South during Jim Crow segregation, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Willie Morris, Lillian Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., William Alexander Percy, and Richard Wright. Wallach argues that the field of autobiography studies, which is currently dominated by literary critics, needs a new theoretical framework that allows historians, too, to benefit from the interpretation of life writing. Her most provocative claim is that, due to the aesthetic power of literary language, skilled creative writers are uniquely positioned to capture the complexities of another time and another place. Through techniques such as metaphor and irony, memoirists collectively give their readers an empathetic understanding of life during the era of segregation. Although these reminiscences bear certain similarities, it becomes clear that the South as it was remembered by each is hardly the same place.

Elements of Metaphysics

Author : Alfred Edward Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Metaphysics written by Alfred Edward Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truth of History

Author : C. Behan McCullagh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696264
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Truth of History written by C. Behan McCullagh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how historians, confined by argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past.

Dimensions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truth of Christianity

Author : William Harry Turton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth of Christianity written by William Harry Turton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science

Author : John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Structure of Truth

Author : Donald Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019884249X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Truth written by Donald Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks the first publication of celebrated philosopher Donald Davidson's 1970 Locke Lectures. In detailing his work on the theory of meaning, the role of a truth theory, the ontological commitments of a truth theory, and the notion of logical form, these lectures offer a rare insight into Davidson's thought at a key moment in his career.

Near Enemies of the Truth

Author : Christopher D. Wallis
Publisher : LifeTree Media
ISBN 13 : 1637560389
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Near Enemies of the Truth written by Christopher D. Wallis and published by LifeTree Media. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantric philosopher and Oxford scholar Christopher Wallis calls out the seemingly helpful spiritual teachings dominating our current culture and demonstrates how these near truths stand in the way of a more radically free and meaningful life—and ultimately, a deeper spiritual awakening. Have you ever been told, “You create your own reality”? Have you been encouraged to “be your best self” or “follow your bliss”? Nowadays these slogans are everywhere, but what if they’re doing more harm than good? After over thirty years as a scholar-practitioner of meditation and Tantric philosophy, acclaimed author Christopher Wallis (also known as Hareesh) explores the most widespread distortions of spiritual teachings present in our world today. Rooted in the Asian wisdom traditions, Wallis’s book uncovers why these oft-heard platitudes are “near enemies” to the truth, often detour us off the spiritual path, and can even cause unnecessary suffering. In asking us to question what we’ve accepted as “truth,” Wallis reveals how teachings like “become the best version of yourself” may have helped us at one stage in our journey but can ultimately lead us away from self-acceptance and compassion and cause us to prioritize an imagined ideal over true intimacy with reality. Understanding the near enemies is vital for any spiritual seeker who is ready to create a deeper, more fulfilling practice and will help you: Distinguish between truth and beliefCommunicate more authentically with loved onesSet healthier boundariesBe in greater harmony with realityPractice radical self-acceptance Near Enemies of the Truth offers itself as a guide to the pitfalls of the spiritual life. However, it doesn’t focus on the negative. In each chapter, after pointing out how a spiritual teaching can be construed in a non-beneficial way, Wallis focuses on the deeper truth and ancient wisdom underlying that teaching, which is often obscured by its popular bumper-sticker version. Each chapter contains a supportive insight for your spiritual process and/or for your everyday life, including guided meditations and reflections. Written in a gentle and encouraging tone, this book offers a wealth of insight and guidance for anyone who finds themselves struggling, reaching a spiritual plateau, or simply seeking a more meaningful way forward. This timely companion will help you think differently and see through the smokescreens to what is true.