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Partial Truths
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Author : James C. Zimring
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-10
Partial Truths written by James C. Zimring and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Mathematics categories.
A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonald’s quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger—only for it to flop when consumers thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound because three is less than four. Separately, a rash of suicides by teenagers who played Dungeons and Dragons caused a panic in parents and the media. They thought D&D was causing teenage suicides—when in fact teenage D&D players died by suicide at a much lower rate than the national average. Errors of this type can be found from antiquity to the present, from the Peloponnesian War to the COVID-19 pandemic. How and why do we keep falling into these traps? James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. We see slews of statistics that are essentially fractions, such as percentages, probabilities, frequencies, and rates, and we tend to misinterpret them. Sometimes bad actors manipulate us by cherry-picking data or distorting how information is presented; other times, sloppy communicators inadvertently mislead us. In many cases, we fool ourselves and have only our own minds to blame. Zimring also explores the counterintuitive reason that these flaws might benefit us, demonstrating that individual error can be highly advantageous to problem solving by groups. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information, from politics to the criminal justice system, from religion to science, from business strategies to New Age culture.
Partial Truths And Our Common Future
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Author : Donald A. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-08-20
Partial Truths And Our Common Future written by Donald A. Crosby and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-20 with Philosophy categories.
Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism. In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how “partial truths” are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary—those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil—and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life. Donald A. Crosby is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Colorado State University and the author of many books, including More Than Discourse: Symbolic Expressions of Naturalistic Faith; Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism; and The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Seven Types of Everyday Miracle, all published by SUNY Press.
Partial Truths And The Politics Of Community
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Author : Mary Ann Tetreault
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Partial Truths And The Politics Of Community written by Mary Ann Tetreault and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
Partial Truths and the Politics of Community considers what happens after feminists succeed in achieving social change or in founding organizations dedicated to accomplishing their personal and social goals. This collection of eighteen essays by scholars from the fields of international relations and feminist studies explores the theoretical dilemmas and practical politics of living with raised consciousnesses in worlds of our own making. The contributors explore feminisms as dreams of human rights, as a cluster of ideologies, and as a bounty of social practices set within frameworks for tackling problems in nation-building and global governance. In essays that illustrate the impact of feminist concerns with the quality of education, the contributors offer studies of homeschooling, of the education of impoverished girls in rural Mexico, of sororities and their relation to female autonomy, and of the teaching of prisoners by volunteers in county jails. Other contributors call for a greater attention to the ecology of social life, viewing society as a complex of individuals bound to one another through webs of transactions and obligations. These contributors recount examples from N
Half Truths And The Truth
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Author : Jacob Merrill Manning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Half Truths And The Truth written by Jacob Merrill Manning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Apologetics categories.
Half Truths And The Truth
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Author : Jacob Merrill Manning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Half Truths And The Truth written by Jacob Merrill Manning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Apologetics categories.
Partial Truths
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Author : Glenda L. Bissex
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Partial Truths written by Glenda L. Bissex and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Partial Truths is a book about learning-a book about one educator's experiences learning to teach, to observe, and to make choices. It is an elegantly written portrayal of Glenda Bissex's life in action and of the intertwining of her professional work and personal experiences. Bissex has explored many aspects of education, searching for where she might make the most difference: as a teacher, a teacher of teachers, a school board member, a researcher, a writer. She seeks a full life beyond as well as through education. Her memoir reveals her passion for the countryside, her experiments as a composer of music, and her lifelong relationship with writing. Partial Truths also collects for the first time some of Glenda Bissex's best essays, including ones that were previously unpublished, that extend the notions of reading, writing, and researching in surprising directions. Educators, whether beginning teachers or midlife adventurers, will find here the company of an honest and reflective companion. Bissex writes at the end of one of her essays, "We share our meanings with each other in the hope that the meanings of one person's story will help others seek and find the meanings of theirs." She might also have said this about the Partial Truths.
Half Truths And The Truth
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Author : J. M. Manning
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-21
Half Truths And The Truth written by J. M. Manning and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-21 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Half Truths And One And A Half Truths
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Author : Jaakko Hintikka
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-27
Ludwig Wittgenstein Half Truths And One And A Half Truths written by Jaakko Hintikka and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-27 with Philosophy categories.
IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters? Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he is saying? A partial reason is outlined in the first essay of this volume. Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was trying to get clear about. He was even too impatient to explain in full his earlier solutions, often merely referring to them casually as it were in a shorthand notation. For one important instance, in The Brown Book, Wittgenstein had explained in some detail what name-object relationships amount to in his view. There he offers both an explanation of what his problem is and an account of his own view illustrated by means of specific examples of language-games. But when he raises the same question again in Philosophical Investigations I, sec.
Half Truths And The Truth Lects On The Origin And Development Of Prevailing Forms Of Unbelief Considered In Relation To The Nature And Claims Of The Christian System
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Author : Jacob Merrill Manning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Half Truths And The Truth Lects On The Origin And Development Of Prevailing Forms Of Unbelief Considered In Relation To The Nature And Claims Of The Christian System written by Jacob Merrill Manning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
Partial Truths
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Author : Evan Ziporyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Partial Truths written by Evan Ziporyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Bass clarinet music categories.