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I critically discuss Douglas Edwards' construal of the debate over truth, and his case for truth pluralism. Toward end present a constructive suggestion on behalf. This avoids problems have presented, whatever in its fate.

In Logical Properties, Colin McGinn offers a new theory of truth, which he describes as “thick disquotationalism.” In keeping with wider theme of the book, truth emerges as conceptually primitive. Echoing Moore, it is simple and unanalyzable. Though truth cannot be analyzed, in the sense of giving a conceptual decomposition, McGinn argues that truth can be defined. A non-circular statement of i...

In the morning interactive work session, a number of fundamental existential questions concerning socio-technical systems research as a discipline were raised. For example, the question of “Is truth about socio-technical systems discovered or created” was raised. As expected, different answers to the questions was discussed and debated. It was pointed out that since FACEBOOK, one of the world l...

Truth telling is one of the most fundamental tenets, not only of forensic psychiatry, but also of life in general. Within bioethics, deontological principles espouse truth telling, and in consequentialist approaches, truth telling is thought to foster respect and autonomy and ultimately to promote the greater social good. Paul Appelbaum writes of it as the first pillar of forensic ethics. Intui...

It is generally said that code clone is one of the factors to make software maintenance difficult. A code clone is a code portion in source files that is identical or similar to another. Clones are introduced because of various reasons such as reusing code by ‘copy-and-paste’ and so on. Since developers usually modify the copied-and-pasted code portions, there are some gaps between the original...

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When people make judgments about the truth of a claim, related but nonprobative information rapidly leads them to believe the claim--an effect called "truthiness". Would the pronounceability of others' names also influence the truthiness of claims attributed to them? We replicated previous work by asking subjects to evaluate people's names on a positive dimension, and extended that work by aski...

In a recent contribution, Ref. [1] study the life cycle impacts of noise-reducing technology for combined heat and power plant [...]