Demagogy - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Demagogy: Encyclopedia Ii - Demagogy - Methods Of Demagogy
Numerical demagogy - mixing of incomparable quantities. For example, "our government has increased social spending by 5 billion dollars, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia - Lie
To tell a lie is to make a declarative statement to another person that one believes to be false, with the intention that the other perso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Morality Of Lying
The philosophers Saint Augustine, as well as Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant, prohibited all lying. According to all three, there are no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Morality Of Lying
The philosophers Saint Augustine, as well as Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant, prohibited all lying. According to all three, there are no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Psychology Of Lying
The capacity to lie is noted early and nearly universally in human development. Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the theory of m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Covering Up Lies
Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Thi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Rhetoric
Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, "orator") is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Lie Detection
The question of whether lies can reliably be detected through non-verbal means is a subject of particular controversy. Polygraph lie det...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Sociology And Linguistics Of Lying
George Lakoff, in criticizing some claims of George W. Bush made prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, notes that: Are they lies—or are t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Etiquette Of Lying
Although lies are normally condemned, it is also normally believed that some lies are worse than other lies. In particular, lies that are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Etiquette Of Lying
Although lies are normally condemned, it is also normally believed that some lies are worse than other lies. In particular, lies that are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Lying Distinguished From Bullshitting
In his book On Bullshit (2005; first published as an essay in 1986), Harry Frankfurt suggests that lying and bullshitting are not the sam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Psychology Of Lying
The capacity to lie is noted early and nearly universally in human development. Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the theory of m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Sociology And Linguistics Of Lying
George Lakoff, in criticizing some claims of George W. Bush made prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, notes that: Are they lies—or ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Lie Detection
The question of whether lies can reliably be detected through non-verbal means is a subject of particular controversy. Polygraph lie det...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lie: Encyclopedia Ii - Lie - Lying Distinguished From Bullshitting
In his book On Bullshit (2005; first published as an essay in 1986), Harry Frankfurt suggests that lying and bullshitting are not the sam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhetoric - History
Rhetoric - Introduction. The scholarly literature on the 2500-year history and theory of rhetoric in Western culture is far too volumin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhetoric - History
Rhetoric - Introduction. The scholarly literature on the 2500-year history and theory of rhetoric in Western culture is far too volumin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Populism: Encyclopedia Ii - Populism - History
Populism - Classical populism. The word populism is derived from the Latin word populus, which means people in English (in the sense of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Populism: Encyclopedia Ii - Populism - Populist Methods
Populism is characterized by a sometimes radical critique of the status quo, but on the whole does not have a strong political identity a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Populism: Encyclopedia Ii - Populism - Current Or Recent Populists
Populism is alive and well in various countries around the world. Examples of populists in the contemporary era include: Bob Hawke in Au...   » Read the article