There are circumstances in which it is better to lie. In life we sometimes avoid the truth in order to prevent people from getting hurt. I do not believe lies should be used only for our convenience because that is wrong and selfish. If a small lie is told with intentions of protecting someone‚ than that is acceptable. In the book‚ My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult‚ the mother does not tell her daughter that her boyfriend has passed away. When the daughter asks where he has been‚ she simply
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Worst lie of my life… The worst lie of my life was funny but it got me grounded. It all started from a phone call I made to my cousin and how I said the lie and forgot about it. If I would not have forgotten about it‚ everything would have been normal that day. It surprised my parents after I told them about what happened and then they decided to ground me for the next day. It all started with the phone call I made to my cousin Afsheen. The phone call was for just a
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Truth Discovery with Multiple Conflicting Information Providers on the Web ∗ ∗ Xiaoxin Yin UIUC xyin1@cs.uiuc.edu Jiawei Han UIUC hanj@cs.uiuc.edu ABSTRACT Philip S. Yu IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center psyu@us.ibm.com of information on the web. Even worse‚ different web sites often provide conflicting information‚ as shown below. The world-wide web has become the most important information source for most of us. Unfortunately‚ there is no guarantee for the correctness of information
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What is Truth? HZT4U1 2013/12/04 Khalid Mohamed For thousands of years the pursuit of knowledge and the definition of fact plagued philosophers. In order to define what knowledge truly is‚ fact must be defined as well. If something is a fact‚ then that must mean that it is truth. Facts and knowledge coexist with truth due to facts being true and incorrect statements being false. Ergo‚ knowledge can be seen as truth. Then the counterpart of truth; error is one
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right and wrong has been battled for years. To many‚ the concept of truth is deep‚ confidential and indefinable. In fact‚ it has been said that "The discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy". Clearly‚ we are in deep water on this topic. Some believe in absolute truth‚ while others believe truth is relative. I believe truth is not absolute when it comes to the names of physical things. Nevertheless‚ I do believe truth is absolute when it comes to moral things. Aside from those‚ I believe
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Reality and truth are both so hackneyed in a commonplace manner with over-lapping ideas that they each lose their own individuality. Reality is a subjective value that reflects what characterizes our world‚ whether it is our individual world or the world as a whole‚ and its conditions. Oliver Sacks’ "The Mind’s Eye: What the Blind See" and Tim O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story" bring the relationship of truth and reality into question. O’Brien openly uses the thin line between truth and reality
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Have you ever thought of how much you lie? How many times did you lie today? Many people lie about lying? More than you could imagine. I could try and be honest by saying that during this week‚ I wrote a journal that made me realized that I lie more than I even knew. I tried to keep track of my daily lies by writing it down but I wasn’t too honest‚ and I spiked a couple of lies. Is that consider lying too or just keeping the truth to myself? Either way‚ I was too embarrassed to confess that I have
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An Inconvenient Truth explores data and predictions regarding climate change‚ interspersed with personal events from the life of Al Gore. Through a Keynote presentation (dubbed "the slide show") that he has presented worldwide‚ Gore reviews the scientific evidence for global warming‚ discusses the politics and economics of global warming‚ and describes the consequences he believes global climate change will produce if the amount of human-generated greenhouse gases is not significantly reduced in
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The Ironic Truth – an Analysis of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master of Margarita A Thesis Presented to the Department of Literature UST College of Nursing In partial fulfillment of the requirements in Literature 101 Word Literature Jeanne Claire Borja March‚ 2013 DEDICATION I dedicate this book to my family; my mom‚ dad and my little sister‚ Jadie. I also dedicate this book to all the Filipinos who had experienced the same fate of fear and inhibitions in order to conform to the norms of the society
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An Inconvenient Truth The climate crisis that our planet faces has become an ever-increasing and extremely controversial issue. In the book “An Inconvenient Truth‚” Al Gore goes beyond the political and economic implications of this crisis and states that global warming is a moral issue that humans need to address. For years‚ scientists have been examining the reasons for the changing climate and have come to the conclusion that global warming is real and it is serious threat to the world. Eventually
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