Practices of truth : an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts /
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| Author / Creator: | Dupret, Baudouin. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 214 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 214. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121756 |
| Summary: | The claim of this book is that truth is a matter of language games and practical achievements: it is a "member phenomenon". To document this statement, it proceeds to the investigation of instances of truth-related practices in various Arab contexts. Bearing on the constitution of actions and events, on what is factual or objective, on predictability, consequentiality, intentionality, causality, and on the many ways people orient to them, such a varied set of questions appears thoroughly moral. The praxeological respecification this book undertakes leads to important considerations regarding the question of morality in ordinary reasoning, and the categories and categorizations on which that morality is based: moral values are publicly available; morality has a modal logic; moral values and conventions have an open texture; objectivity is a practical achievement carried out by members of society; the moral order is an omnipresent, constitutive characteristic of social practice. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284655 9027284652 1283314770 9781283314770 9789027256171 9027256179 9786613314772 6613314773 |