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“john s pletz”

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  • The Liar's Non-Paradox: Why Liar Sentences Present No Problems for the Concept of Truth

    by John S. Pletz ...
    The Liar's Non-Paradox explains why the Liar's Paradox is not a paradox of all because the Liar sentence does not have truth potential and cannot be confirmed. Its superficially convincing contradiction ("If 'This sentence is false' is true, then it is false, but if it is false, then it is true") depends completely upon hypothetical premises which cannot support the conclusion that our ordinary ... Read more

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  • Answering the Theodicy Question

    by John S. Pletz ...
    The author proposes that an answer to the general theodicy question, which asks how a loving and all-powerful God could have created human beings and placed them into a world where so much suffering and evil could occur, can be found in three interrelated explanations that focus on the consequences of having certain shared key attributes. Together they show why moral evil, natural evil and all ... Read more

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  • Finding and Confirming Truth

    by John S. Pletz ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Sense and Goodness Without God

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  • The Stone Reader

    Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments

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    A timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy.Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted ... Read more

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  • The Body in Pain:The Making and Unmaking of the World

    The Making and Unmaking of the World

    by Elaine Scarry ...
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  • Adler's Philosophical Dictionary

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