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Truth And Truthfulness

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Author : Bernard Williams
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2025-05-13

Truth And Truthfulness written by Bernard Williams and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-13 with Philosophy categories.

What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness and the doubt that there is any truth to be found is not an abstract paradox. It has political consequences and signals a danger that our intellectual activities, particularly in the humanities, may tear themselves to pieces. Williams's approach, in the tradition of Nietzsche's genealogy, blends philosophy, history, and a fictional account of how the human concern with truth might have arisen. Without denying that we should worry about the contingency of much that we take for granted, he defends truth as an intellectual objective and a cultural value. He identifies two basic virtues of truth, Accuracy and Sincerity, the first of which aims at finding out the truth and the second at telling it. He describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them today. Truth and Truthfulness presents a powerful challenge to the fashionable belief that truth has no value, but equally to the traditional faith that its value guarantees itself. Bernard Williams shows us that when we lose a sense of the value of truth, we lose a lot both politically and personally, and may well lose everything.

The Limits Of Truth Essays

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Author : Robert N. Britcher
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-12-10

The Limits Of Truth Essays written by Robert N. Britcher and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-10 with Philosophy categories.

These intriguing essays on philosophical truth encapsulate the history and theories of truth; the acquisition of common sense; reasoning and language; and logic and science. But they go beyond the logical, propositional truth, and investigate truth in the ontological sense: for example, in faith, art, and history. The essays are literary and non-academic in style. The author has a point of view: truth is an evolutionary concept that arose among human (and hominid) societies. This evolutionary view stresses the high degree to which our reasoning and truth-telling are rooted in our emotions, which account for, not just meaning in the linguistic sense, but also meaningfulness, or emotional significance. It is the latter which leaves us open to subconscious as well as fully intentional lying, but also to great works of art and acts of faith.

The Essay At The Limits

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Author : Mario Aquilina
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-08

The Essay At The Limits written by Mario Aquilina and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.

In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful literary form for tackling a fractious 21st-century culture. The Essay at the Limits brings together leading scholars to explore the theory, the poetics and the future of the form. The book links the formal innovations and new voices that have emerged in the 21st-century essay to the history and theory of the essay. In so doing, it surveys the essay from its origins to its relation to contemporary cultural forms, from the novel to poetry, film to music, and from political articles to intimate lyrical expressions. The book examines work by writers such as: Theodor W. Adorno, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Annie Dillard, Brian Dillon, Jean Genet, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, Karl Ove Knaussgaard, Ben Lerner, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Michel de Montaigne, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Wallace Stevens, Eliot Weinberger and Virginia Woolf.

Meaning Truth And The Limits Of Analysis

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Author : David Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-24

Meaning Truth And The Limits Of Analysis written by David Wiggins and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-24 with Philosophy categories.

This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here. Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late twentieth century, the book engages first with the nuts and bolts of sentence-construction: predicates and the copula, quantifiers, names, existence treated as a second-level predicate, and adverbial modification. The following five chapters then treat of definition and (as dreamt of by Leibniz and others) the terminus of semantic analysis; the idea of natural languages as real things with a history; the idea of truth conceived as correlative with inquiry (C. S. Peirce) and, finally, the properties we look for in truth itself--the marks, as Frege or Leibniz might have said, of the concept true.

The Truth In Hell And Other Essays On Politics And Culture 1935 1987

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Author : Hans Speier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

The Truth In Hell And Other Essays On Politics And Culture 1935 1987 written by Hans Speier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

These essays by one of the pioneers of sociology are grouped in five categories: social theory, war and militarism, public opinion and propaganda, the history of literature, and ""the present and the future""

Essays On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth In Opposition To Sophistry And Scepticism On Poetry And Music As They Affect The Mind On Laughter And Ludicrous Composition On The Utility Of Classical Learning

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Author : James Beattie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1777

Essays On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth In Opposition To Sophistry And Scepticism On Poetry And Music As They Affect The Mind On Laughter And Ludicrous Composition On The Utility Of Classical Learning written by James Beattie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1777 with Classical education categories.

An Essay On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth The Third Edition

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Author : James Beattie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1773

An Essay On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth The Third Edition written by James Beattie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1773 with categories.

An Essay On Truth Containing An Inquiry Into Its Nature And Importance Etc

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Author : Andrew Fuller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1806

An Essay On Truth Containing An Inquiry Into Its Nature And Importance Etc written by Andrew Fuller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1806 with categories.

An Essay On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth In Opposition To Sophistry And Scepticism

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Author : James Beattie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1807

An Essay On The Nature And Immutability Of Truth In Opposition To Sophistry And Scepticism written by James Beattie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1807 with Skepticism categories.

In Spirit And In Truth An Essay On The Ritual Of The New Testament By Thomas Edward Bridgett

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Author : Thomas Edward BRIDGETT
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873

In Spirit And In Truth An Essay On The Ritual Of The New Testament By Thomas Edward Bridgett written by Thomas Edward BRIDGETT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.