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Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale, is a collection of essays by Frederick Buechner on the subject of homiletics. It was first composed for and delivered at the Yale Divinity School Lyman Beecher Lecture series in 1976. [1] Telling the Truth was subsequently published in 1977 by HarperCollins. It is Buechner's ...
Since he is telling the truth, the truthful answer to Q is da, which means yes. True is asked and responds with da. Since he is telling the truth, the truthful answer to Q is ja, which means no. False is asked and responds with ja. Since he is lying, it follows that if you asked him Q, he would in fact answer ja.
In this case, Alice is a knave and Bob is a knight. Alice's statement cannot be true, because a knave admitting to being a knave would be the same as a liar telling the truth that "I am a liar", which is known as the liar paradox. Since Alice is a knave this means she must have been lying about them both being knaves, and so Bob is a knight.
The individual may be aware they are lying, or may believe they are telling the truth, being unaware that they are relating fantasies. [citation needed] Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in court, or in any of various sworn statements in writing.
Lying and deception can be the basis of many propaganda techniques including Ad Hominem arguments, Big-Lie, Defamation, Door-in-the-Face, Half-truth, Name-calling or any other technique that is based on dishonesty or deception. For example, many politicians have been found to frequently stretch or break the truth. Managing the news
The illusory truth effect (also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. [1] This phenomenon was first identified in a 1977 study at Villanova University and Temple University.
A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter: Epimenides was a Cretan who made the immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars." [a] A paradox of self-reference arises when one considers whether it is possible for Epimenides to have spoken the truth.
The 'truth machine' would be a mechanism that would be 100% accurate in determining if a person was lying or telling the truth. It could help eliminate crime and dishonesty in general. As long as it is employed universally (and not just by government officials), the 'truth machine' could revolutionize humanity and take it to that next ...