Cold Hard 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…

One Man’s Truth For the past twenty years, literary theorists have challenged the notion of truth in autobiographical texts. Indeed, they have even asserted that memoirs are merely representations of events, perspectives and experiences. Yet, such statements fail to recognise the very purpose of autobiographical texts- to provide cathartic release and to send a message about how the world is, was and could be. Of course, such texts represent events, create perspectives and detail key…

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…

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…

50% of Americans believe in more than one conspiracy theories to explain mysterious events. A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that creates an unjustifiable conspiracy, usually involving an illegal or harmful act done by the government or other powerful act. Conspiracy theories are a widely believed public phenomenon, that provides an explanation for an event that needs an explanation or a better one than it already has to explain why it happened. Many people on…

Choices are what life is all about. It is important to make your own choices. The text, “Words Do Not Pay”, the excerpt from the novel, Rabbit Proof Fence, and the speech by Aleeza Kazmi show how it is important to make your own choices. First, in the text, “Words Do Not Pay,” the author, Chief Joseph, Wrote a letter to the white men saying that “words Do Not Pay for his dead people. They do not pay for my country now overrun by white men” in this story Chief Joseph makes a decision by Second,…

Have you ever had to lie to keep your friend out of trouble? Have you lied to keep yourself out of trouble? Lying can be a bad way to get out of situations if not used with caution. Most people have lied before so as to not get into trouble. I have lied a few times myself. However, lying can be helpful in many ways like to help get out of trouble in certain situations. It can also help to get respect or recognition from friends or family. Lying, if used in the correct situation, is not always…

For Ayer, philosophy had to be grounded in science. This could be achieved through empirical observation. Ayer believed that all knowledge comes from the senses, that everything I know is justified by my senses. Additionally, a process of elimination for Ayer is sufficient for anything that cannot be answered by science. These eliminations can be conducted by using evidence based on you senses. Ayer concluded, “the criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is…

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…

"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…