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The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy a study of Ernst Tugendhat / by Zabala, Santiago, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Overcoming Husserl : the metaphysics of phenomenology -- Making the nonexplicit explicit -- The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy -- There are no facts, only true propositions -- Correcting Heidegger : verifying Heidegger's philosophy from within -- Disclosedness beyond representation -- Disclosedness beyond truth -- Truth versus method -- Semantizing ontology : after the metaphysics of logical positivism -- Being is not a real predicate -- Semantizing being -- Nominalizing being -- Philosophizing analytically : the semantic foundation of philosophy -- The history of optical philosophy -- After the fictitious world of intuition -- The truthful aspect of language -- Language is the consciousness of man -- Epilogue : the linguistic turn as the end of metaphysics -- The dissolution of ontology into formal semantics : a dialogue with Ernst Tugendhat.…”
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The fables of Aesop : 112 moral tales retold / by Spriggs, Ruth

Disinformation and manipulation in digital media : information pathologies / by Culloty, Eileen, Suiter, Jane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Information Pathologies -- Bad Actors -- Platforms -- Audiences -- Countermeasures -- Conclusion: Post-Truth Communication.…”
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The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office by Watts, H. David

Table of Contents: “…Nicholson -- Talking about Christmas -- Silence knows the right questions -- One cancer cell -- Anathema -- Telling the truth in the realm of truth -- Ghosts in the machine -- Blood butterfly -- Is something wrong with your prostate? …”
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Circles where the head should be poems / by Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Cosmogony -- Lares and Penates -- Bower bird -- Lady on a unicycle -- Same lady, different unicycle -- The truth about effects -- Genealogy -- Girl under bug zapper -- Portrait of the artist with toothpick bridge -- Itinerant -- Mnemosyne -- Fisher King -- Bildungsroman -- The school by the zoo -- Tactics: a short lesson -- Portrait of the artist with paint-by-numbers -- Svengali deck -- Plot twists -- Flea circus -- Felix culpa -- Epithalamium -- Storm and stress -- Aftermath -- Dead matter -- Assisted living -- Miniatures -- The truth about distance -- A correlated history of synchronity.…”
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Philosophy and melancholy Benjamin's early reflections on theater and language / by Ferber, Ilit

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin and Freud : at the juncture of melancholy loss -- Commitment and loyalty to the lost object -- The intentionless nature of truth -- Work and play : a view of melancholic productivity -- The Trauerspiel : reflections on the baroque -- Expressions of pain in the Trauerspiel -- The bombastic nature of expression in the Trauerspiel -- Pain and spectacle : the figure of the martyr -- Death and meaning : the figure of the ghost -- Language and loss : Benjamin's concept of expression -- Creation and loss : "on language as such" -- Lament : language and sadness -- The ghosts of language : "the task of the translator" -- The "epistemo-critical prologue" -- The "monad" : Leibniz and Benjamin -- The monads' configuration as a hierarchy -- A pre-established harmony : Benjamin's conception of truth as harmony -- Stimmung : philosophy and mood.…”
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Understanding Tolstoy / by Kaufman, Andrew D. (Andrew David), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The lost house and the little green stick : Tolstoy's journey as man and artist -- "The hero of my tale is truth" -- Seeking authenticity in an alienated age : Olenin and The Cossacks -- War and peace : life's "labyrinth of linkages" -- Andrei and Nikolai : intersecting spiritual orbits -- Patterns of disillusionment and discovery -- The dog and the globe : Pierre's journey to the truth -- From generation to generation -- Levin : "To err and to dream" -- Two lights : Anna and Levin -- Stumbling through life : the death of Ivan Ilyich -- Coming alive : Dmitry Nekhliudov and Resurrection -- Hadji-Murat : the stubborn thistle.…”
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Wittgenstein and value the quest for meaning / by Litwack, Eric B.

Table of Contents: “…Wittgenstein on Frazer's golden bough ; Truth in religion ; Conclusion -- Wittgenstein on art: reactions and causes. …”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Inside accounting the sociology of financial reporting and auditing / by Leung, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Finitism -- Fox river -- Creating numbers -- Software -- The year end accounts -- The audit -- The truth -- Conclusion.…”
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Modern Jewish thinkers from Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig / by Greenberg, Gershon

Table of Contents: “…The dialectical truth -- Intellection and developing consciousness -- Heteronomous revelation -- History -- Universal morality -- Through the twentieth century.…”
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Forgiveness and reconciliation in an inter-group context East Timor's perspectives / by Neto, Félix, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Granting forgiveness in an inter-group context -- Seeking forgiveness in an inter-group context -- Truth and reconciliation commissions.…”
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Mindset : the new psychology of success / by Dweck, Carol S, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The mindsets -- Inside the mindsets -- The truth about ability and accomplishment -- The mindset of a champion -- Mindset and leadership -- Mindsets in love (or not) -- Parents, teachers, and coaches : where do mindsets come from? …”

Authors of the storm meteorologists and the culture of prediction / by Fine, Gary Alan

Table of Contents: “…On the floor -- A cult of "science" -- Futurework -- Writing on the winds -- Ground truth -- A public science -- Weather wise.…”
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Pragmatism a guide for the perplexed / by Talisse, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…The origins of pragmatism -- Pragmatism and epistemology -- Pragmatism and truth -- Pragmatism and metaphysics -- Pragmatism and ethics -- Pragmatism and politics -- Pragmatism and environmental ethics.…”
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Access to information as a human right by Bishop, Cheryl Ann, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Freedom-of-expression conceptualization -- Information-privacy conceptualization -- Right-to-a-healthy-environment conceptualization -- Right-to-truth conceptualization -- Conclusions.…”
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Hyphenated Christians towards a better understanding of dual religious belonging / by Goosen, Gideon

Table of Contents: “…-- Me, myself -- No-self -- Religious ID -- Symbols, divine connections -- God's truth -- Conversion or transformation?.…”
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Existence, interpretation, freedom selected writings / by Pareyson, Luigi

Table of Contents: “…Existence -- pt. 2. Knowledge -- pt. 3. Truth, interpretation and the critique of ideology -- pt. 4. …”
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Honesty sells how to make more money and increase business profits / by Gaffney, Steven, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Top 10 sales hall of shame: when bad sales people go even worse -- Honesty: the best policy for closing sales and growing the business -- The startling truth about why honest sells -- Being honest with yourself -- The hidden costs of communication breakdowns -- Just the facts: how assumptions impact sales -- Be a life giver -- Getting the truth from everyone -- Referral selling: ensuring honest relationships from the start -- The start of your selling relationship: getting started with an honest foot forward -- Close more sales by acknowledging your clients -- The honest way to close more sales. more often. more quickly -- Overcoming objections and questions -- Turning a onetime client into a lifetime client -- Remember to practice honesty internally -- Some final thoughts.…”
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