Fictional Truth and Digital Reality

Criticism, Contact with Reality and Truth

The Status of Truth in Science-Fictional and Scriptural Texts: Captain KirkTM Meets Captain Moroni

Supposition Error: a novel uses several familar science fiction devices (time-travel, spaceflight, alien encounters, etc.) to illustrate for lay persons and students the dynamics of the philosophy of meaning formulated by C.S. Peirce (1839-1914). In this paper I shall use Peirce's framework in an academic context, to compare and contrast my treatment of The Book of Mormon in the novel Suppositi...

Truth without consequence: reality and recall in refugees fleeing persecution.

Truth telling is one of the most fundamental tenets, not only of forensic psychiatry, but also of life in general. Within bioethics, deontological principles espouse truth telling, and in consequentialist approaches, truth telling is thought to foster respect and autonomy and ultimately to promote the greater social good. Paul Appelbaum writes of it as the first pillar of forensic ethics. Intui...

Is Reality digital or analog?

Reality is presented to us both in a digital and analog manner, the first as evidenced by the findings about the nature of space and sub-atomic entities, and the latter by the uncertainties at the quantum level. It is not sufficient to regard reality, our universe, simply as both but dialectically, one in terms of the other. The most fundamental law of understanding is that we apprehend somethi...

The digital native - myth and reality

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and promote a realistic understanding of young people and digital technology with a view to supporting information professionals in playing useful and meaningful roles in supporting current generations of young people. In particular the paper aims to offer a critical perspective on popular and political understandings of young people and digital...