Truth
TRUTH. The concept of religious truth expresses various aspects of human experience: reality that is permanent, immeasurable, unconcealed, effective, powerful; personal character that is sincere...
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Truth
In their search for truth, many of the great philosophers have looked to mathematics as a paradigm for how such a search should be undertaken. The reason is that mathematicians have a very preci...
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Knowledge and Truth, the Value Of
Questions concerning the value of knowledge and truth range from those that suggest complete skepticism about such value to those that reflect more discriminating con...
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Truth
Theories of truth investigate truth as a property of one's thoughts and speech. We attribute truth and falsity to a wide variety of so-called truth-bearers: linguistic items (sentences, u...
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Truthlikeness
Truth is the aim of inquiry. Despite this, progress in an inquiry does not always consist in supplanting falsehoods with truths. The history of science is replete with cases of falsehood...
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`Every text constructs its own truth'. In working in the confessional mode to represent their passionate yet tragic relationship, both Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath demonstrate their skill in construc...
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Facing the Truth
Should people always tell the truth, or it is sometimes better to lie? Some people prefer to hide themselves behind a wall of lies rather than face the truth and deal with it. It i...
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Politics Of War: The surge is working, and now Iraq's leaders appear to have forged a political deal that could serve as a template for a lasting peace in the fractious country. What's that you say...
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Disinformation: After Scooter Libby's questionable perjury conviction, the special prosecutor announced the end of his probe. But if avenging falsehood under oath grabs him, Valerie Plame herself s...
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Politics: Sen. Russ Feingold wants to "censure" President Bush for unconstitutional acts. But since the Constitution gives Congress no such powers, censuring the president would be the real unconst...
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Warming: As protesters pose sans clothing on an Alpine glacier, a new study documents how puny man's effect on climate is and how futile are attempts to change it.Hundreds of people recently posed ...
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