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Finding and confirming truth /
Is truth a word we use only to affirm a statement, or is it also something more? In Finding and Confirming Truth, John S. Pletz explains that truth is more than mere affirmation. It also is the conclusion reached when we have effectively confirmed that an assertion accurately depicts the facts that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
University Press of America,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Is truth a word we use only to affirm a statement, or is it also something more? In Finding and Confirming Truth, John S. Pletz explains that truth is more than mere affirmation. It also is the conclusion reached when we have effectively confirmed that an assertion accurately depicts the facts that it describes. Following a delineation of the major types of inferences used in confirming the truth of statements and the justifications for each of them, Pletz discusses the process used in identifying and verifying factual truth. That process includes the critical step of assessing the degree of c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (iv, 133 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780761850595 0761850597 9780761850588 0761850589 1282561316 9781282561311 9786612561313 6612561319 |