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Aristotle's theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of philosophy: philosophy of language, logic, ontology and epistemology. In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle's views on truth and falsehood. He analyses in detail the main relevant passages, addresses some well-known problems of Aristotelian semantics, and assesses Aristotle's theory from the point of view of modern analytic philosophy. In the process he discusses most of the literature on Aristotle's semantic theory to have appeared in the last two centuries. His book vindicates and clarifies the often repeated claim that Aristotle's is a correspondence theory of truth. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in both ancient philosophy and modern philosophy of language.

Truth --- Truthfulness and falsehood. --- Aristotle. --- Vérité. --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Believability --- Credibility --- Falsehood --- Lying --- Untruthfulness --- Reliability --- Honesty --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Aristotle --- Aristotile --- Aristoteles. --- Vérité et mensonge --- Vérité --- Mensonge --- Vérité et mensonge. --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Αριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- Post-truth --- アリストテレス --- Truth. --- Arts and Humanities

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What role does God play in relation to the deceptions that pervade the Jacob cycle? What has not been investigated is the way God may factor into this deceptive activity. The book of Genesis contains a latent tension: Jacob is both a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family and YHWH's chosen, from whom the entire people of Israel derive and for whom they are named. How is one to reconcile this tension? This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of divine deception in the Jacob cycle (Gen 25-35). The primary thesis is that YHWH both uses and engages in deception for the perpetuation of the ancestral promise (Gen 12:1-3), giving rise to what Anderson has dubbed a theology of deception. Through a literary hermeneutic, emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between both how the text means and what the text means, with theological aims, this study examines the various manifestations of YHWH as Trickster in the Jacob cycle. Attention is given to how the multiple deceptions evoke, advance, and at times fulfill the ancestral promise. In Gen 25-28 YHWH engages in deception to insure Jacob receives the ancestral promise. Here Jacob is seen cutting his deceptive teeth by extorting the right of the firstborn from Esau and the paternal blessing from Isaac. YHWH, however, also plays the role of Trickster through an utterly ambiguous oracle to Rebekah in Gen 25:23, which drives the human deceptions. At Bethel (Gen 28:10-22) Jacob receives the ancestral promise from YHWH, in effect corroborating the earlier deceptions. In Gen 29-31 YHWH uses the many deceptions perpetrated between Jacob and Laban to advance the ancestral promise in the areas of progeny, blessing to the nations, and land. Lastly, in Gen 32-35 YHWH participates in Jacob's final deception of Esau (Gen 33:1-17) through two encounters Jacob has, first with the "messengers of God" and second with God. Jacob's tricking of Esau during their reconciliation results in Jacob's return to the promised land. Can anyone out-trick the Divine Trickster? Anderson thus rightly gives due attention to the Old Testament's image of God as dynamic, subversive, and unsettling, appreciating the complex and intricate ways that YHWH interacts with his people. This witness to YHWH's engagement in deception stands alongside and informs the biblical portrait of YHWH as trustworthy and a God who does not lie.

Deception in the Bible. --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Bible. --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Verite et mensonge --- Deception --- Aspect religieux --- Judaïsme. --- Enseignement biblique. --- Jacob, --- Critique et exegese. --- Chicanery --- Deceit --- Subterfuge --- Intrigue --- Désappointement --- Désillusion --- Désenchantement --- Émotions --- Contrevérité --- Crédibilité --- Fausseté --- Faux (morale) --- Insincérité --- Mensonge --- Menterie --- Véracité --- Vérité (morale) --- Vrai (morale) --- Authenticité --- Confiance --- Détecteurs de mensonge --- Divulgation d'informations --- Faux --- Mythomanie --- Vérité --- Vérité et mensonge --- Calomnie --- Fact-checking --- Flatterie --- Hypocrisie --- Post-vérité --- Sincérité --- Tromperie --- Vantardise --- Morale pratique --- philosophie --- droit pénal --- Chez l'enfant --- Israël --- Jacob

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Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this 'falsehood paradox', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe falsehoods (because to say or believe a falsehood is to say or believe something that is not, and is therefore not there to be said or believed). In this book Paolo Crivelli closely examines the whole dialogue and shows how Plato's brilliant solution to the paradox is radically different from those put forward by modern philosophers. He surveys and critically discusses the vast range of literature which has developed around the Sophist over the past fifty years, and provides original solutions to several problems that are so far unsolved. His book will be important for all who are interested in the Sophist and in ancient ontology and philosophy of language more generally.

Sophistes (philosophie grecque) --- Platon, --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Ontology --- Language and languages --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Plato. --- Ontology. --- Truthfulness and falsehood. --- Ontologie --- Mensonge --- Langage et langues --- Signification (Philosophie) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Believability --- Credibility --- Falsehood --- Lying --- Untruthfulness --- Reliability --- Truth --- Honesty --- Being --- Metaphysics --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Sophist (Plato). --- Post-truth --- Platon --- Arts and Humanities --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Plato. - Sophist

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"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and commoners alike-chose to practice the shadowy art of dissimulation. For men and women who could not risk revealing their inner lives to those around them, this art of incommunicativity was crucial, both personally and politically. Many writers and intellectuals sought to explain, expose, justify, or condemn the emergence of this new culture of secrecy, and from Naples to the Netherlands controversy swirled for two centuries around the powers and limits of dissimulation, whether in affairs of state or affairs of the heart. This beautifully written work crisscrosses Europe, with a special focus on Italy, to explore attitudes toward the art of dissimulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Discussing many canonical and lesser-known works, Jon R. Snyder examines the treatment of dissimulation in early modern treatises and writings on the court, civility, moral philosophy, political theory, and in the visual arts.

Secrecy --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Interpersonal communication --- Social aspects --- History. --- Italy --- Europe --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- 16th century. --- 17th century. --- affairs. --- aristocracy. --- canonical writing. --- commoners. --- communication. --- controversy. --- court writings. --- culture of secrecy. --- disguise. --- dishonesty. --- dissimulation. --- early modern europe. --- europe. --- inner lives. --- italy. --- masking emotions. --- modern history. --- moral philosophy. --- naples. --- netherlands. --- philosophers. --- political silence. --- political theory. --- private lives. --- rene descartes. --- secrecy. --- secret thoughts. --- textbooks. --- treatises. --- visual arts. --- writers and intellectuals. --- Secret --- Mensonge --- Communication interpersonnelle --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Italie --- Moeurs et coutumes

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This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish, Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume significantly extends the traditional 'canon' of narrative unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar Nünning) with essays from experts in different national traditions. The result is a collection that approaches the 'case' of narrative unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.

Fiction --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- First person narrative --- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction. --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Academic collection --- 82-31 "19" --- 82-3 --- Roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- 82-31 "19" Roman--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Narrative, First person --- Literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Point of view (Literature) --- Persona (Literature) --- Technique --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism --- First person narrative - History and criticism --- First-Person Novel. --- Narrative Theory. --- Unreliable Narrator. --- Roman --- Narrattion à la première personne --- Vérité et mensonge --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature