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    reader’s trust by showing her character’s obvious flaw in memory through her perspective as a child‚ coupled with observations made by the adult Bechdel narrating the work. These two perspectives lead to the reality the reader finds themselves in with Bechdel at the story’s close. This “reality” is truth as we know it; what we perceive to be real life. The formerly mentioned observations take the form of re- occurring illustrations of seemingly minor objects that reveal her character’s inner workings

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    Someone must come along to convince the population that their truth‚ the earth is round‚ a valid and have it be accepted. Nietzsche mostly talks about how man deciphers truth in his essay; however Nietzsche cannot avoid mentioning lying because in reality‚ lies and truth are very intertwined with each other. In fact‚ there are times when the truth and lies are so entangled that there are indecipherable from one another. If there is such a thin line between lies and truth‚ why do we lie rather than

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    centuries‚ philosophers have debated whether or not the real world truly exists. Nearly all philosophers can agree that there is an objective reality and a subjective reality. The objective reality can be defined as anything that exists independently of any conscious awareness of it; it is uninterrupted‚ unchanging‚ and the same. Contrastingly‚ the subjective reality then relies on some conscious awareness of it to exist; it is interrupted‚ changing‚ and different (Mulder). The real world may exist‚ but

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    article Weapons of Mass Delusion all represent versions of the truth. In many ways‚ they represent truth as a kind of impossibility‚ as it is constantly in a fluid state of instability and ambiguity. There can never be a ‘true’ representation of reality as perspective‚ time‚ memory and language tarnish truth. This notion resounds throughout these three texts which assert that the possibility of representation is limitless. Birthday Letters is Hughes attempt at "opening a direct and inner contact"

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    imaginings” are having a powerful impact on his mental and physical state already. If mere fantasy is doing this to him‚ how will the actual murder affect him? With the line‚ “Nothing is but what is not” Macbeth is trying to convince himself that reality and fantasy are equal‚ and with this he has found a way to justify the murder of Duncan. He has convinced himself that nothing that exists has any meaning‚ his thoughts and speculations are consuming his mind‚ affecting his ability to act. Now‚ the

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    symbolic interpretive and post-modern perspective consists of two aspects‚ the ontology which is what defines the reality we know and epistemology which is the process of gathering and analysing information that leads to the definition of our perceived reality (Hatch & Cunliffe 2006). For ontology‚ the modernist believes that in objectivity things has an objective‚ external reality that exists independent of our knowledge. Modernists view organisations as real entities and also a system of decisions

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    breaks down what we (as humans) are very similar to how the bible portrays God. In fact‚ Bonaventure breaks down many things in life the way the bible does . Although Bonaventure does indeed doubt everything‚ I find it amazing how Bonaventure doubts reality and truths of life more than he doubts the existence of the unknown. St. Bonaventure exercised an extraordinary amount of form in his logic to describe the seven steps to know God; however‚ his logic and reasoning were bias as he did not question

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    exist in reality is another. ’Lord‚ not only are You that then which nothing greater can be conceived but you are also something greater than can be conceived’ St. Anselm‚ Proslogion. As Anselm states above‚ God is that which nothing greater can be conceived‚ therefore not only must he exist in the mind‚ but in reality. This is because it is greater to exist in reality than simply in the mind. There is strength in this point‚ as what Anselm is saying is true. It is greater to exist in reality‚ that

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    Education defeats Ignorance There is a commanding belief that our experiences of reality are just simply deceptions of the truth. In Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”‚ Socrates illustrates his perception about human knowledge. He contends that people are rarely able to escape from personal ignorance and with greater knowledge comes confusion and conflict when their own beliefs are challenged. (Socrates 20) The parallel Socrates makes in the allegory‚ is between a prisoner who breaks from the

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    freshman to be a doctor in hopes to help people. When I took an enormous chance to Other companies may have a similar plan to sell their product‚ but Vemma’s healthy energy drink‚ Verve‚ embodies the very heart of the Exhale. Back to Earth. Reality as we know it. Solid. Familiar. Forecasted. Recorded‚ trusted‚ always returning to baseline. Though it is not a perfect world‚ it gives and takes as we do the same‚ to maintain our envisioned picture of happiness. Our generation is wakening up. We

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