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Author : James A. Woodbridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Truth as a Pretense written by James A. Woodbridge and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Per Mollerup
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039486
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Pretense Design written by Per Mollerup and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them. After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applications, providing a range of examples for each: beautification, amusement, substitution, and deception. Beautification, he explains, includes sunless tanning, high heels, and even sporty accessories for a family car. Amusement includes forms of irrational otherness—columns that don't hold anything up, an old building's façade that hides a new building, a new Chinese town that mimics an old European town. Substitution pretends to be a natural thing: plastic laminate is a substitute for wood, Corian a substitute for marble, and prosthetics substitute for human organs. Deception doesn't just bend the truth; it suspends it. Soldiers wear camouflage to hide; hunters use decoys to attract their prey; malware hides in a harmless program only to wreak havoc on a user's computer. With Pretense Design, Per Mollerup adds a new concept to design thinking.
Author : Bradley Armour-Garb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028272
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Pretense and Pathology written by Bradley Armour-Garb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.
Author : David Nyberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226610528
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Varnished Truth written by David Nyberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone says that lying is wrong. But when we say that lying is bad and hurtful and that we would never intentionally tell a lie, are we really deceiving anyone? In this wise and insightful book, David Nyberg exposes the tacit truth underneath our collective pretense and reveals that an occasional lie can be helpful, healthy, creative, and, in some situations, even downright moral. Through familiar and often entertaining examples, Nyberg explores the purposes deception serves, from the social kindness of the white lie to the political ends of diplomacy to the avoidance of pain or unpleasantness. He looks at the lies we tell ourselves as well, and contrary to the scolding of psychologists demonstrates that self-deception is a necessary function of mental health, one of the mind's many weapons against stress, uncertainty, and chaos. Deception is in our nature, Nyberg tells us. In civilization, just as in the wilderness, survival does not favor the fully exposed or conspicuously transparent self. As our minds have evolved, as practical intelligence has become more refined, as we have learned the subtleties of substituting words and symbols for weapons and violence, deception has come to play a central and complex role in social life. The Varnished Truth takes us beyond philosophical speculation and clinical analysis to give a sense of what it really means to tell the truth. As Nyberg lays out the complexities involved in leading a morally decent life, he compels us to see the spectrum of alternatives to telling the truth and telling a clear-cut lie. A life without self-deception would be intolerable and a world of unconditional truth telling unlivable. His argument that deception and self-deception are valuable to both social stability and individual mental health boldly challenges popular theories on deception, including those held by Sissela Bok and Daniel Goleman. Yet while Nyberg argues that we deceive, among other reasons, so that we might not perish of the truth, he also cautions that we deceive carelessly, thoughtlessly, inhumanely, and selfishly at our own peril.
Author : Rose Lerner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548475550
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book True Pretenses written by Rose Lerner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something borrowed... Through wit and sheer force of will, Ash Cohen raised himself and his younger brother Rafe out of the London slums and made them (in his unbiased opinion) the best confidence men in England. Ash is heartbroken when Rafe decides he wants an honest life, but he vows to give his beloved brother what he wants. When Ash hears of a small-town heiress scrambling to get her hands on the dowry held in trust for when she marries, he plans one last desperate scheme: con her and his brother into falling in love. After all, Rafe deserves the best, and Ash can see at once that captivating, lonely Lydia Reeve is the best. Lydia doesn't know why she instinctively trusts the humble stranger who talks his way through her front door and into her life. She just knows she's disappointed when he tries to set her up with his brother. When a terrible family secret comes to light and Rafe disappears, Lydia takes a big risk: she asks Ash to marry her instead. Did Ash choose the perfect wife for his brother...or for himself?
Author : Theodora Achourioti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401796734
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Unifying the Philosophy of Truth written by Theodora Achourioti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kathy Herman
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780764235009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book False Pretenses written by Kathy Herman and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Broussard loves the life she and her husband Pierce have built in her beloved Louisiana hometown--especially their popular brasserie Zoe B's, to which folks drive all the way from Lafayette for lunch or dinner. It seems like heaven. But it's about to become hell. A series of anonymous notes is making her life a misery--because Zoe has a secret so terrible it could leave the business in shambles and tear her marriage apart. Can she find the courage to face her past? The first in a new series from Kathy Herman, False Pretenses is a gripping suspense novel that leaves a lasting impression about honesty and accountability.
Author : William Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Corpus Juris written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tennessee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1834 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Compilation of the Tennessee Statutes of a General Public Nature, in Force on the First Day of January, 1919 written by Tennessee and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 998 pages
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Download or read book Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Century Edition of The American Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Greenough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199288885
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Truth and Realism written by Patrick Greenough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ralph W. Rowe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 155635679X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Is 9/11 a Call to Heal America? written by Ralph W. Rowe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this book is to determine if the Greek word for worship (proskuneo), used in John 4: 23-24, includes the concept of bowing the knees or kneeling. In the New Testament, proskuneo is translated as worship sixty times. All of the worship events in the New Testament that included a form of bowing the knees or kneeling has been documented. This task was undertaken using five reliable sources of information or testimony: (1) the testimony of God, or Scripture (1Corinthians 2:1), (2) the testimony of Lexicons or Greek dictionaries, (3) the testimony of Bible translators, (4) the testimony of history, and (5) the testimony of Bible scholars. The book was written with all categories of readers in mind: worship leaders, clergy, college professors, Seminary students, Bible scholars, teachers, graduate school students, Pastors, lay people, seekers, and is suitable as a textbook in all Bible classes that include the subject of worship.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Everett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199674795
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Nonexistent written by Anthony Everett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Everett gives a philosophical defence of the common-sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. He argues that our talk and thought about such fictional objects takes place within the scope of a pretense, and that we gain little but lose much by accepting fictional realism.
Author : Tennessee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thompson's Shannon's Code of Tennessee, 1917 written by Tennessee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 3134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Haraymiel Ben Shaleahk
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 141201722X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Without Pretense written by Haraymiel Ben Shaleahk and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic guide to developing and maintaining perfect male/female relationships and marriages. This book also shows how to correct marriages that have gone sour. It brings the Absolute Truth about the correctness of multiple wives in marriages and the fact that it is the Intended Marital System.
