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Thus, according to Lutz, doublespeak is a form of language that defeats the purpose of inventing language because doublespeak does not communicate the truth but seeks to do the opposite and the doublespeak committee is tasked with correcting this problem that doublespeak has created in the world of language.
As per this philosophy, illusion is not the opposite of truth or reality.
The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman agreed with this assessment, writing: " The Gibson character was presented as a man who refused to get involved until his own family was hurt — then, he went to war for personal revenge .... As Lind said, the truth is that that's more or less the opposite of patriotism, which is about making sacrifices for the national good, not serving your personal motives or interests.
The truth is the opposite of what people say: he idealised the Jew.
# Lies: making up information or giving information that is the opposite or very different from the truth.
Siger was accused of teaching " double truth "-- that is, saying one thing could be true through reason, and that the opposite could be true through faith.
( He is portrayed in precisely the opposite way in the 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola, in which he is depicted as the person who finally discovers the truth and demands the resignation of all those responsible for incriminating Dreyfus.
Argument to moderation ( Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam, also known as middle ground, false compromise, gray fallacy and the golden mean fallacy ) is a logical fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions.
Contradiction means a statement is proven to be false, but the false itself is a proposition which is defined to be opposite to the truth.
In epistemology ( how we conceive the structure of " truth "), pluralism is the opposite extreme to pragmatism.
He declared, " Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Their meanings cannot be stated in a true definition, but their meanings can be referred to instead by being placed with their incomplete definitions in self-evident statements, the truth of which can be tested by whether or not it is impossible to think the opposite without a contradiction.
The terms " real good " and " right desire " cannot be defined apart from each other, and thus their definitions would contain some degree of circularity, but the stated self-evident truth indicates a meaning particular to the ideas sought to be understood, and it is ( the moral cognitivist might claim ) impossible to think the opposite without a contradiction.
Remarkably, it could be said that there was a grain of truth in this idea, because it was later shown that the Pauli exclusion principle results in a " Fermi hole " of decreased repulsion between a pair of electrons with opposite spins in the same orbital.
If she could find such a value, she could decommit by sending the truth and Y, or send the opposite answer and Y '.
* acting in a way opposite to that of the sin ( for example, for the sin of lying, one should speak the truth );
Which card ( s ) must you turn over in order to test the truth of the proposition that if a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite face is red?
In that respect, Relling, plotting with old Werle, is an advocat for the same system, and initially the opposite of Gregers ( who, like Hamlet, is trying to get the truth out ).
However, the same Coluan who mentioned the information later proved that the truth was exactly opposite of this statement in the outcome of the war against Robotica and C. O. M. P. U. T. O ..
Indeed, they are not true in the majority of cases, and in a few of them they are the direct opposite of the historical truth '.
So the human race was " separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one steadfastly contends for truth and virtue, the other of those things which are contrary to virtue and to truth.
The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion ( blue ) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality ( red ).
Whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all ; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and policies, in almost every one, will receive it as an intuitive truth, that a consolidated republican form of government therein, can never form a perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to you and your posterity, for to these objects it must be directed: this unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be, like a house divided against itself.

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This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
and according to them, whatever one fancies one feels, what one feels in fact is the opposite.
If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.
Directly opposite is the emperor's door, through which they entered the building.
Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.
If clay is slightly out of shape, square straight sides with guide sticks or rulers pressed against opposite sides, or smooth round pieces with damp fingers.
There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;
Obviously, if colloidal particles bear charges of opposite sign or, if one kind is charged and the other kind is not, the attraction will be intensified and the tendency to agglomerate will be greatly reinforced.
Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).
Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.
And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.
It also overlooks the fact that in a rational lexicon, and quite clearly in More's lexicon, the opposite of serious is not gay but frivolous, and the opposite of gay is not serious but solemn.
These will be numbered in the direction opposite to the flow of the process stream, so that stage R is the T stage from the end.
Instead of emotional recrimination, loaded phrases and sloganeering, we need a dispassionate study of the facts, a better understanding of the opposite viewpoint and a more serious effort to extend the areas of agreement until a solution is reached.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

opposite and falsehood
* The world needs real dialogue, that falsehood is just as much the opposite of dialogue as is silence, and that the only possible dialogue is the kind between people who remain what they are and speak their minds.
falsehood were in his soul, but not in his consciousness ; so that he paraded them at the very moment that he was claiming for himself all that was their opposite.

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