10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTRUISM»
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untruism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
untruism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done
This fickle oscillation is often precipitated by the chameleon-like quality of '
untruisms': 'An untruism is an ambiguous sentence which taken in one sense
states a dull truism—an analytical or a platitudinous truth—and taken in another
sense ...
2
Presocratics-Arg Philosophers
... they arestated informally in ordinary English orin ordinary Greek. Premiss (11)
isconveyed by some such sentenceas 'what doesn't existcan't exist';andthat
sentence is an 'untruism'; that is tosay,itis an ambiguoussentence expressing,
onone ...
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Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays
This view, too, is an untruism. In one sense it is trifling and true. In another sense
it is substantial and false. Aristotle's implicit totalitarianism rests ultimately on a
questionable inference from a metaphysical untruism. Notes This chapter is ...
Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety, 2005
The goal of this section is to unravel the lines of reasoning that have been balled
up under this umbrella objection. 1 . The trivial interpretation. "Bizarre
suppositions are flawed" is an untruism.23 An untruism is a statement that is
ambiguous ...
Roy A. Sorensen Associate Professor of Philosophy New York University, 1992
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Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... deceive, distort, falsify, pervert, varnish 8 disguise, simulate 9 dissemble,
embellish, embroider 10 camouflage, equivocate 1 1 counterfeit, prevaricate
misrepresentation 3 fib, lie 4 tale 5 story 6 canard 7 falsity, untruth 8 untruism 9
falsehood ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... face, front, masquerade, show, veil falsehood n 1 syn FALLACY 1,
erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, falseness, falsity, untruth 2 syn LIE, canard,
falsity, fib, misrepresentation, prevarication, story, tale, untruism, untruth ref fakery
, feigning, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
Nous ne pouvons pas non plus qualifier la these de Parmenide de «untruism».
La premiere interpretation est tautologique, mais il n'est pas sur qu'elle soit une
bana- lite, et ceci en raison du deuxieme pole de l'«untruism». La deuxieme, qui
...
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Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review
... to parrot the current untruism: "Give me a boy with a lively curiosity every time.
Bad boys make better men than good boys." The second day we got down to
business. Immediately after the morning exercises a smart little girl raised her
hand.
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A Selection from the Writings of Viscount Strangford on ...
The thing is so absurd as not to be worth notice, if it were not for this tiresome
literary trick of making an appeal, as it were, to the genius of Untruism; of
supporting the observation you want to make on a particular subject by a false
platitude, ...
Percy Ellen Frederick William Smythe Strangford, Percy Ellen Frederick William Smythe Strangford (8th viscount), Emily Anne (Beaufort) Smythe Strangford (viscountess), 1869
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review
If any thinking soul, I say, does not like the state of things our story unfolds, for
sake of truth in opposition to all sham, dislike it; say so by all means, but produce
your cure — don't sit and yawn, and see what is an untruism — living and making
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNTRUISM»
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untruism is used in the context of the following news items.
What's up, heterodox? Economist Richard Wolff Visits the Hellmouth
... mass media insists on telling obvious untruisms in the Groucho Marxist vein of believing capitalist apologist economics experts rather than your own lyin' eyes. «OC Weekly, Feb 15»
