Search results for "truth"

Regimes of patriarchy and faith : reflections on challenges in interviewing women and religious minorities in Pakistan

2023

PurposeThis paper discusses the challenges that two doctoral researchers faced while researching religious minorities and women in a culturally sensitive society such as Pakistan. Their shared interest in sensitive topics related to gender and minorities in Pakistan led both researchers to collaborate in this study to provide a better understanding of issues in qualitative research in the same research context. They discuss the challenges of interviewing participants within the educational context. They also suggest some ways to overcome such challenges.Design/methodology/approachBased on Foucualt's writings on regimes of truth, discourse and systems of exclusion, the authors in this study …

Objects, Structures, and Logics

2022

This book offers Novel In-Depth Discussions of the Relationship Between Logic and Metaphysics Attempts to Develop a New Framework for the Concept of Mathematical Structure Emphasizes the Importance of Mathematical Practice to the Philosophy of Mathematics

An intensive midsummer night’s dream

2018

Dialog religii a dialog kultur

2019

W artykule podjęto zagadnienie relacji między dialogiem kultur a dialogiem religii. Analiza pojęcia religii i pojęcia kultury pokazała, że ich treści są ze sobą ściśle powiązane. Nie ma religii bez kultury ani kultury bez religii. Dlatego pojawiający się czasem postulat zastąpienia dialogu międzyreligijnego dialogiem międzykulturowym jest bezpodstawny. Dialog kultur bez dialogu religii jest niemożliwy. Aby dialog mógł zaistnieć, muszą być spełnione odpowiednie warunki. Jednym z nich jest dążenie do prawdy. Prawda ma jednak charakter inkluzywny, a nie ekskluzywny. Dlatego w religii nie ma miejsca na przemoc w imię prawdy. Dla chrześcijan prawda ma charakter osobowy. Jest nią Jezus Chrystus –…

Semantically Closed Languages Reconsidered. Re-Reading Alfred Tarski

2019

The text shows that Alfred Tarski studied semantics to define a true sentence in a m a t e r i a l l y a d e q u a t e and f o r m a l l y c o r r e c t way, and in effect he defined the co-called semantically closed languages as a subset of formalized ones, in which the occurrence of the Liar paradox is imminent because of the features of the language used. This is one of the points of Tarski’s heritage where misunderstandings constantly occur among the readers of Tarski‘s work, and that is why the present paper may prove to be useful by presenting suitable excerpts from the original Tarski’s text. Tarski found additional limiting criteria applicable to formalised languages, which may prev…

Conflict between truthfulness and tact in parent–teacher conferences

2009

The purpose of this article is to explore how teachers’ and parents’ conversations are affected by their notions about truthfulness. The study is qualitative and draws on data from observations of parent–teacher conferences about pupils with special needs in a Norwegian lower secondary school and from interviews with participants. The findings show that teachers’ and parents’ conversations are constrained by positive talk, decency and silence and, especially when the pupil participates, they choose a careful point of view, gloss over it, and talk about what is OK and not unpleasant. Furthermore, teachers act communicatively in a strategic way. It is concluded that teachers and parents often…

The Need for More Rhetoric in the Public Sphere. A Challenging Thesis About Post-Truth

2018

Since it hit the headlines and aroused the interest of scholars, the phenomenon of posttruth has received two main different interpretations: someone has observed that in the phenomenon there is nothing really new: lies and fakes are always existed and the only real difference is represented by the speed with which today, thanks to the means of communication, they spread. Others, on the other hand, have emphasized the close relationship between postmodernism and post-truth, arguing that the first one is the ideological background of the second one. Our paper aims to show that in order to frame post-truth in the right perspective, we need the theoretical framework offered by the rhetoric. In…

Sobre la naturalización de la lógica*

2003

El presente artículo se ocupa de dar razones en contra de la naturalización de la lógica, en tanto en cuanto esto signifique una revisión de esta ciencia. El trabajo critica cada uno de los intentos históricos importantes que ha habido de revisión de las leyes lógicas -- intuicionismo, lógica cuántica, lógicas alternativas - y también intenta argumentar que el problema de la interpretación de la mecánica cuántica no tiene nada que ver con la naturalización de la lógica. This article is devoted to give reasons against the naturalization of logic, in a sense which entails a revision of this science. The paper criticizes each historical important attempt to revise logical laws - intuitionism, …

Criminalizzare la postverità? Un dialogo postvero

2022

Ragionare di postverità e diritto penale non è semplice: il tema è sfuggente, in continuo divenire e pone questioni delicatissime, tra le quali è arduo muoversi con equilibrio. Per questa ragione, quello che segue, più che un contributo “a tesi”, è un tentativo di sollevare problemi: non abbiamo una posizione conclusiva da proporre in merito alla criminalizzazione del discorso postveritiero, se sia la cosa giusta da fare all things considered. Da qui anche l’idea del dialogo, che va letto come un abbozzo di discussione, non come l’offerta di incontrovertibili soluzioni. La struttura dialogica dello scritto non rispecchia le posizioni ora dell’uno ora dell’altro dei due autori (per questo i …

Engineering victory and defeat: the role of social bots on Twitter during the French PresidentialElections

2018

International audience; The electoral campaigns of both Trump and Macron took place in a climate marked by accusations of “fake news”, manipulation of social media and personal attacks. Previous research has even shown that the same automated Twitter accounts were used to spread rumours to discredit both Hillary Clinton and later Emmanuel Macron, notably during the “Macron Leaks” scandal (Ferrara, 2017), which has led to accusations of orchestrated foreign infiltration in at least the French presidential campaign. Although it is difficult to distinguish (legitimate) foreign discussions of (rumours related to) French presidential candidates on Twitter on the one hand and intentional meddling…