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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"falsehood"”.
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Beaut-Ease
… products. Both industries flourish on a level of falsehood that teeters on the brink of hilarity.
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The External Conflict of Modern War Correspondents: Technology's Inevitable Impact on the Extinction of Nostalgic Combat Reporting
… by questions of censorship, assertions of falsehood, and threats to national security. But it is the technological advancements in both reporting and combat techniques that have caused a disappearance of the nostalgic war coverage that American correspondents once prospered from. The …
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Agency, Identity, and Authority in Rwanda: 1950s Political Rhetoric as a Bridge to Post-Colonial Genocide
… interactions elevates Rwanda’s history from the falsehood of ancient adversaries to a complex, modern narrative. Studying Rwandan rhetoric and responses to it provides an opportunity to display and study Rwandan agency and identity. This research analyzes sources from Tutsi and the Hutu …
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The Anamorphic Library
… illusion of the book. To further enforce this falsehood, the library holds fictional books, ranging from fairy tales to mythological books. The library is constructed with three main corridors, which wrap around the inner core, an open-air courtyard. The corridors contain the illusion while the …
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The Impact of Positive/Negative Fake News on Country Brand Equity
The stronger capacity of falsehood to diffuse compared with truth motivates research on the effects of fake news on country brand equity, given the distant and intangible nature of this construct. This study integrates valenced framing theory with construal-level theory to investigate how fake news …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
… of narrativity, who argues that the Self is a falsehood. The fifth chapter draws a connection between how Narrativity functions in response to experience, and how a literary narrative triggers our mental process of Narrativity, allowing us to become engaged with the work, and proposes …
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The (ir)relevance of truth to rationality
… First, it is possible to act in the light of a falsehood: a consideration that is not the case can be an agent’s reason for acting. Second, it is not possible to act in unbelief: in order for an agent to act for a reason, the agent must at least believe that reason to be the case. Third, the …
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The Plot and The Archive: Curation, Provisional Histories, and Novels
… endeavor simply to characterize history as a falsehood, disregarding its offerings as corrupt, misleading, or potentially dangerous. Instead, this dissertation explores how characters create archives and curate artifacts as strategies for reconciling the past. Each chapter in The Plot and the …
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Retreat and restructuring: Karl Barth's strategic use of John's Gospel in the Church Dogmatics
… theology, becomes a dualism of knowledge and falsehood in the Church Dogmatics, in which the real drama of the story is not the interactions between the characters but the struggle to proclaim the truth. Chapter 10 contains some concluding reflections on the wider implications of John’s …
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The dynamics of attention in digital ecosystems
… but latent capacity for discerning truth from falsehood. To under- stand the attentional dynamics of stage 1, I will discuss how social influence can impact the content users are exposed on social media environments, via a large scale field experiment with AI-generated hybrid animals …
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Bureaucracy and other stories
… how we go about trying to separate truth from falsehood, right from wrong, just from unjust, and the fixed/given/static from the changeable/contingent/fluid. Ultimately, the difference between “things in the world,” on one hand—the stuff of life—and “things about the world,” on the other—the …
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"There can be no education without religion": Tennessee evangelicals and education, 1875--1925
… Scopes trial were less about the truth or falsehood of evolution and more about the important question of the place of parents, churches, and religious belief in New South public education. Furthermore, this investigation of religious attitudes about public schools---the laboratories in …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… situations of language: unintelligibility and falsehood. It thus discovers a grammar of homecoming amid the difficulties of speaking, especially in relation to love, truth, death, and grace. Chapter Two examines A Hidden Life as an example of postsecular cinema. Focusing on its largely …
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Generating and Maintaining Confianza: Living a "Good" Life Amidst Violence, Insecurity, and Mistrust in Rural El Salvador
… and categories of trust, mistrust, and falsehood based on detailed ethnographic evidence.
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Modelling stress levels based on physiological responses to web contents
… functions - to determine the likelihood of falsehood in interrogations. Quite often, online user experience is studied via tangible measures such as task completion time, surveys and comprehensive tests from which data attributes are generated. Prediction of users' stress level and behaviour …
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The Productive Roles of Falsehoods In Science
<p>The use of falsehoods is a common, if rarely recognized, part of many good scientific practices. In many cases, there is no mystery behind the use of a falsehood. For instance, when scientists approximate some physical value - say, that an electron has a charge of exactly 1.6EE-19 coulombs, …
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Democratisation, mass media and the anti-corruption drive in Africa: the case of Nigeria, 1999-2015
… media, crooks are often portrayed as saints and falsehood overshadows truth. The findings therefore suggest that corruption is growing, rather than diminishing, in Nigeria, because the media are very weak. Essentially, the argument is that to overcome some of the challenges facing the media …
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Praktik denda bagi pihak penerima gadai sawah oleh penerima gadai perspektif 'urf di Desa Bumiharjo, kecamatan Batanghari, Kabupaten Lampung-Timur
… as these requirements included into requirements falsehood, so with these requirements can invalid date the contract, but the pawn transaction being conducted by the Bumiharjo community. However if the customary be reviewed with the theory of 'urf then the customviolated the terms of the theory of …
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Deceptive self-presentation : an examination of lying for saving face in FTF and CMC contexts
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Communication, 2010
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