Tag: Truth

Free Download Arpad Szakolczai, "Post-Truth Society "
English | ISBN: 1032126450 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB | 468 KB
It is widely asserted that we are now living in a post-truth society. What that means, this book argues, is that the contemporary global world is thoroughly infested not only with trickster figures but an entire and operational trickster logic; or, that we now live in a Trickster Land – an argument advanced by the claim that in modernity liminality has become permanent; or that modern life is patently absurd.

Free Download Technology vs. Truth: Deception in the Digital Age by Scientific American Editors
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9781948933230 | 119 pages | PDF | 1.68 Mb
In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this eBook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the bias inherent in algorithms and more.

Free Download Dorothy Grover, "A Prosentential Theory of Truth"
English | 1992 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 0691073996, 069160293X, 0691632383 | PDF | 10,2 mb
In a number of influential articles published since 1972, Dorothy Grover has developed the prosentential theory of truth. Brought together and published with a new introduction, these essays are even more impressive as a group than they were as single contributions to philosophy and linguistics. Denying that truth has an explanatory role, the prosentential theory does not address traditional truth issues like belief, meaning, and justification. Instead, it focuses on the grammatical role of the truth predicate and asserts that "it is true" is a prosentence, functioning much as a pronoun does. Grover defends the theory by indicating how it can handle notorious paradoxes like the Liar, as well as by analyzing some English truth-usages. The introduction to the volume surveys traditional theories of truth, including correspondence, pragmatic, and coherence theories. It discusses the essays to come and, finally, considers the implications of the prosentential theory for other theories. Despite the fact that the prosentential theory dismisses the "nature of truth" as a red herring, Grover shows that there are important aspects of traditional truth theories that prosentential theorists have the option of endorsing.

Free Download Sex When You Don’t Feel Like It: The Truth about Mismatched Libido and Rediscovering Desire by Cyndi Darnell
English | June 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1538161702 | 247 pages | PDF | 1.66 Mb
A practical guide to understand both low and high libido, drawing on science, straight talk and useful exercises to stop blame and rekindle pleasure.

Free Download C. Wilks, "Emotion, Truth and Meaning: In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 904816138X, 140200916X | PDF | pages: 260 | 5.7 mb
The Emotive Theory was theory ahead of its time, and a theory which was, perhaps understandably, misinterpreted, misrepresented, and ridiculed by its critics from the outset. In this work, the author acquaints the reader with what the original emotivists actually claimed, and enriches their claims by psychologically expanding them. He thus develops an enriched emotive theory.