An Inconvenient Truth

Oedipus begins the story as a noble king with the ability to see, but ignorant to the vision, and refusal to learn and accept the prophecy. Over the course of the story, though, many people, including Teiresias, a blind prophet, try to show him the truth. Throughout Oedipus Rex, Oedipus experiences extreme physical changes, symbolic of his mental changes, as he learns more about himself. In the first scene, Oedipus calls upon Teiresias to help make clear the prophecy, and clarify who Oedipus…

John states that that specific question is probably his least favorite topic of conversation in the entire world, and “unable to answer the question and aware of the tension existing between [himself] and Jack… prevaricates, until his wife, Lila, eventually, after some thought, answers the question with the simple words: ‘A person can change’” (Leah, 53). Although this comment may initially appear insignificant, Lila’s input into the conversation brings a fresh attitude to John’s closed-minded…

www.snopes.com https://archive.is/rd9VU https://archive.is/hswTS#selection-957.0-1384.0 Fake News Why the fake news article is more attract than true story? Social media growing so fast because of technology. So some people want to defame someone or some companies, they will use a salient exemplar in the article then let the readers to believe the story is reality. In those articles, the authors told us people what event to cause those people dies in the cinema. When people use upload…

My objective in this paper is to discuss the credibility of the pragmatic theory of truth in contest to the coherence theory. Although some scholars support different components of the coherence theory, I will discuss the issues that delegitimizes the entire premise of this theory. This paper will provide an outline of the coherence and the pragmatic theory of truth through a condensed analysis of works/research conducted from different philosophers. Subsequently, I plan to argue against the…

"65% percent of those questioned said it was sometimes Ok to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings..."(Article 1 Paragraph 7). Basically, this means that people will use lying as a way of protecting themselves from the consequences of telling the truth. This is important, because this shows that lying is used to not only protect others but yourself. For instance, Time…

Appearance vs Reality is the distinction between the judgemental truth and the factual truth. To hide the reality, the world manifests more than one aspect of the circumstance. And, often reveals the matter that can satisfy or benefit oneself. Also, in order to conceal the earnest intention, one’s demeanor contradicts with the truth. Similarly, in Macbeth, the witches act duplicitous and decides Macbeth’s fate, to become king but for a limited time. The fate motivates Macbeth to become king and…

Religion is a special cultural phenomenon in the process of the development of human society and an important part of human traditional culture. It affects people's ideological consciousness, living customs and other aspects. However, under the influence of different social environments, political backgrounds and historical cultures, various countries have formed different religious cultures. In the history of Chinese civilization, religious culture, as an important part of traditional Chinese…

harmful than the truth and can have long-term effects. The person behind the bullshitting typically doesn’t care about what is true and what is false, he just wants to convince you that he is right. Sometimes, the person doing the bullshitting even starts to believe there own bullshit because they don’t have the insight of what the truth really is anymore. I think these are all important reasons behind why Frankfurt calls relativism bullshit. Relativism is the idea that knowledge or truth only…

Why is truth important to us or why do we think it is important? Why do we ask for the truth or swear on our lives that something is true even though sometimes it’s not? Even after we are given an answer, truth or lie, we will go further to make sure it’s true. Why do we do this? “being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard. Truth may also often be used in modern contexts to refer to an idea of "truth to self," or authenticity.” Given this definition, truth is…

Have you ever wondered if Bigfoot is real? Due to all the creditable evidence I have found Bigfoot is real! He is known by many names; Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, to name a few. It reportedly lives in extremely remote areas of North America and other countries. But just because a countless numbers of people say they've seen the great hairy beast. Critics say people could be faking, due to hoaxes. Some evidence comes from videos, documentation, and National Geographic evidence. With all of this…