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  2. Telling the Truth - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Radical honesty - Wikipedia

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    In the last book of the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, a character named Frizz Mizuno invents a surgical brain procedure called "Radical Honesty" that renders him unable to lie. In fact, if he hears someone tell a lie when he himself knows the truth, he can't even simply not speak—he has to reveal the truth under any circumstances.

  4. Knights and Knaves - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Truth-default theory - Wikipedia

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    Truth-default theory (TDT) is a communication theory which predicts and explains the use of veracity and deception detection in humans. It was developed upon the discovery of the veracity effect - whereby the proportion of truths versus lies presented in a judgement study on deception will drive accuracy rates.

  6. The Truth Machine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. How to tell if someone's lying to you - AOL

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    But when he finally told the truth in 2013, he got a lot more personal. 3) Liars also use very simple terms when explaining a story. It's easier to keep track of a lie when the details are basic ...

  8. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Truth sandwich - Wikipedia

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    A truth sandwich is a technique in journalism to cover stories involving misinformation without unintentionally furthering the spread of false or misleading claims. It entails presenting the truth about a subject before covering misinformation, then ending a story by again presenting truth.