Someone saw the Bismarck approaching and through mental events, "perceivings, notings, calculations, judgments, decisions, intentional actions and changes of belief," causally interacted with the sinking of the Bismarck. ... Premise one and two deny the truth of the third premise. ... With the ruling out of mental descriptions and premises one and two, provides truth for Davidson's non-reductive identity theory. ... The person will respond if the individual wants to tell the truth. ... For example, if my mental state is that I am hungry and I call Pizza Hut to order the pizza, my men...

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He even doubted his senses, to wit: "All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. ... He also questioned the truths of logic and reason since it is possible that he could be deceived by a demon which has the power to make things appear to be logical 9. ... This is a truth that is self-evident and cannot be doubted. ... Descartes believes he has the truth he has been looking for; a foundational truth on which other truth will be based. He observed that the truth 'I think therefore I am...

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In The Truth of Ecology (2003), Dana Phillips critiques ecocriticism for the problematic separation of the literal and the literary; Phillips reminds us that texts written or read from an ecological perspective may well be literal (or descriptive or realistic or naturalistic) in mode but can't avoid being literary in medium. ...

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