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Classic questions and contemporary film : an introduction to philosophy / by Kowalski, Dean A.

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy, rhetoric, and argument -- Epistemology and skepticism -- God, creation, and evil -- Freedom, fate, and determinism -- Mind, body, and consciousness -- Ethical foundations and moral truth -- Ethics and values -- The state, social contracts, and justice -- The human condition.…”
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Fuzzy machine learning algorithms for remote sensing image classification / by Kumar, Anil (Engineer), Kumar, A. Senthil, Upadhyay, Priyadarshi

Table of Contents: “…Machine learning -- Ground truth data for remote sensing image classification -- Fuzzy classifiers -- Learning based classifiers -- Hybrid fuzzy classifiers -- Fuzzy classifiers for temporal data processing -- Assessment of accuracy for soft classification.…”
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Preference and information by Egonsson, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Analysing disappointment -- The quantitative element -- The qualitative element -- The qualitative element criticized -- Comparing examples -- Truth and deliberation -- Intrinsic and final preferences -- Strongly intrinsic preferences -- A problem of hypothetical approval -- Hypothetical approval in medicine.…”
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The Charlemagne pursuit : a novel / by Berry, Steve, 1955-

Divine mania : alteration of consciousness in ancient Greece / by Ustinova, Yulia

Table of Contents: “…chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Prophetic mania -- chapter 2 Telestic mania and near-death experiences -- chapter 3 Bakcheia -- chapter 4 Mania on the battlefi eld and on the march -- chapter 5 Nympholepsy -- chapter 6 Poetic mania -- chapter 7 Erotic mania -- chapter 8 The philosopher’s mania and his path to truth.…”
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The appeal of art in modernity / by Symonds, Michael John

Table of Contents: “…Weber: the Value-Sphere of Art -- Kant: the Inner Workings of the Sphere of Art -- Hegel: Art and the End of History -- Adorno 1: Truth, Beauty and Utopia -- Adorno 11: Purpose, Disenchantment and Suffering -- Bourdieu: Distinction and the Game of Art.…”
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast : Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley / by Oliver, Jeff, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene -- Constructing an Aboriginal landscape -- Beyond the water's edge -- Between stories and the landscape -- Ambiguity and geographic truths -- Toward the colonization of opinion -- The paradox of progress -- Ties that bind, lines that divide -- A view from the ground.…”
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Loving Yusuf conceptual travels from present to past / by Bal, Mieke, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…First memories, second thoughts -- Falling in love -- Dreaming away -- Looking in : outrageous, preposterous -- The invention of sympathy -- Sign language -- Eyes wide shut -- Truth speak -- Loose canons : facing authority -- Dad pains -- References.…”
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast : Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley / by Oliver, Jeff, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene -- Constructing an Aboriginal landscape -- Beyond the water's edge -- Between stories and the landscape -- Ambiguity and geographic truths -- Toward the colonization of opinion -- The paradox of progress -- Ties that bind, lines that divide -- A view from the ground.…”
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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…. -- XV. The experience of truth : The man of science and the man of culture ; "Mere ideas" and the picture-psychology ; "Mere feelings" ; Science and anthropomorphic prejudice ; Truth and satisfied imagination ; Error and lack of imagination ; Experience of reality vs. coherence and correspondence. -- XVI. …”
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The Question of Ethics : Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger / by Scott, Charles E.

Table of Contents: “…Overturning In The Basic Problems Of Phenomenology -- 6. The Truth Of Ecstasis -- 7. Ethos/Ecstasis -- These Violent Passions: The Rector's Address -- "All Truth'- Is That Not A Compound lie?" …”
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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…. -- XV. The experience of truth : The man of science and the man of culture ; "Mere ideas" and the picture-psychology ; "Mere feelings" ; Science and anthropomorphic prejudice ; Truth and satisfied imagination ; Error and lack of imagination ; Experience of reality vs. coherence and correspondence. -- XVI. …”
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The poverty of Clio resurrecting economic history / by Boldizzoni, Francesco, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Truth on the cross : science and ideology -- Economics with a human face? …”
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Making human rights real by Spagnoli, Filip

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Truth and politics -- Universal rights -- Types of rights and interdependent rights -- Limited rights -- Individual rights and equal rights -- Religious liberty -- The law -- Separation of powers and judicial review -- Tolerance -- Democracy -- Sovereignty and intervention -- Freedom and equality.…”
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The Syrian rebellion by Ajami, Fouad

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the inheritor -- Come the mountain people -- The time of the founder -- False dawn -- The boys of Deraa -- The phantoms of Hama -- The truth of the sects -- Sarajevo on the Orontes -- The stalemate -- Dreaming of home : a note on the exiles -- Fragments of a past mourned and dreaded.…”
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Inside a class action the Holocaust and the Swiss banks / by Schapiro, Jane, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Winds of truth -- Looking back -- Plaintiffs speak -- The devil's bridge -- An uneasy alliance -- A rough calculation -- Arguments and motions -- The hearing -- Stucki's ghost -- A victim's fund -- A separate peace -- Money dance -- An accounting -- The reckoning.…”
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In defense of negativity attack ads in presidential campaigns / by Geer, John Gray

Table of Contents: “…The need for negativity: an introduction -- Assessing negativity -- The information environment and negativity -- Evaluating character attacks -- Evaluating the content of negative and positive issue appeals -- Dragging the truth into the gutter? The news media, negativity -- And the 1988 campaign -- Negativity, democracy, and the political system.…”
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Kristallnacht 1938 by Steinweis, Alan E.

Table of Contents: “…"Our path is the right one" -- "This bloody Jewish deed" -- "Now the people shall act" -- "The time for revenge has now arrived" -- "Synagogues ignited themselves" -- "A tempest in a teapot" -- "Defendants and witnesses openly hold back with the truth."…”
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Pragmatist metaphysics an essay on the ethical grounds of ontology / by Pihlström, Sami

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Realism, truthmaking, and a pragmatist view on truth and reality -- The transcendental method in pragmatist metaphysics -- Seeking a via media : metaphysical conflicts pragmatically reconsidered -- The ethical grounds of metaphysics -- Modal and moral realisms -- Pragmatism and religious metaphysics.…”
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Inconstant companions archaeology and North American Indian oral traditions / by Mason, Ronald J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On history -- On memory -- Norsemen, trojans, and ancient Israelites -- On the nature of oral tradition -- Mixing apples and oranges, or Looking for kernels of truth -- Mammoth remembrances -- On the historicity of symbols and symbolic praxis -- On the central Siouans before J. …”
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