Many profess a belief in the importance of school integration. In this essay I argue that evidence tells against sincerity belief.

The study is aimed to test the structural relationship between brand personality dimensions, selfcongruity (i.e., actual and ideal self-congruity) revisit intention. Brand was conceptualised as a five-dimensional construct including sincerity, excitement, competence, sophistication, ruggedness. When Chinese outbound tourists perceived various traits of destination brand, it might influence thei...

In this paper we investigate the logic of speech acts and groundedness. A piece of information is grounded for a group of agents if it is publicly expressed and established by all agents of the group. Our concept of groundedness is founded on the expression of the sincerity condition of speech act theory. We formalize groundedness within an extended BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) logic where b...

to read the text of Michel foucault’s late seminars on the topic of parrhesia from the perspective of the work of nearly a decade earlier on the topics of disciplinary power and biopower, one is struck by the seemingly irreconcilable positions he adopts in these two periods on the topic of ‘truth’ [la vérité]. his 1983 Berkeley seminar places considerable emphasis on the courage of the parrhesi...

Allyship is gaining popularity as a tool to combat discrimination. We developed and tested novel allyship positive psychology intervention (PPI). Importantly, we examined observers’ perceptions of effectiveness given that observers represent the majority in many settings. Study 1 (N = 787) an highlighted female employee’s identity-related strengths following discrimination episode. Compared com...

In a thought-provoking paper, Schuklenk and Smalling argue that no right to conscientious objection should be granted to medical professionals. First, they hold that it is impossible to assess either the truth of conscience-based claims or the sincerity of the objectors. Second, even a fettered right to conscientious refusal inevitably has adverse effects on the rights of patients. We argue tha...

1 HERE are social practices and virtues which, if we are to characterize them, require us to mention the truth. This is not the same as mentioning what other people hold true (their beliefs), or just mentioning what we regard as true (our own beliefs). We may contrast in this respect two different virtues of truth, which may be labeled sincerity and accuracy. Sincerity (at the most basic level)...

A major critique against BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) approaches to the communication is that they require strong hypotheses such as sincerity, cooperation, ... on the mental states of the agents (cf. for example [12], [13], [5]). The aim of this paper is to give an operator remeding this defect to a logic BDI. Thus we study communication between heterogeneous agents via the notion of ground...