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Truth

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• Belief and doubt
• Philosophy
• Skepticism

• Pragmatism
• Necessity (Philosophy)

• Truth -- Religious aspects
• Evidence
• Fictions, Theory of
• Reality
• Truthfulness and falsehood

• Conviction

• Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Corruption of Established Truth and Responsibility of Educated Men, by Nathaniel West (page images at MOA)
• An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (sixth edition; London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778), by James Beattie (page images at Google)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• Do Teachers Care About Truth? Epistemological Issues for Education, by Edwin Philip Brandon (HTML at uwichill.edu.bb)
• The Nature of Truth: An Essay (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), by Harold H. Joachim (HTML at southalabama.edu)
• A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity, by John Owen (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1854), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Phenomenology of Mind (2 volumes; London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by J. B. Baillie
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Strange Career of Bishop Sterling: A Novel (published under "Stephen Endicott" pseudonym; New York: Meteor Press, 1932), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), by Ronald E. Day (HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte (new edition; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1865), by Richard Whately (Gutenberg text)

• Crime's Nemesis (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Luke S. May (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Lehre vom Beweis im Strafprozess (in German; Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot, 1883), by Julius Glaser
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• The Third Degree: A Detailed and Appalling Exposé of Police Brutality (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1930), by Emanuel Henry Lavine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)

• Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003: Report (Rept. 108-321 Part 1; no further parts known to be published; 2003), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
  • text and PDF at congress.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fiber Evidence and the Wayne Williams Trial (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 1984), by Harold A. Deadman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents! A Statement (1961), by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and John M. Harlan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), by National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community (multiple formats at NAP)
• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in US Criminal Cases (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2018), by Sarah St. Vincent (HTML and PDF at hrw.org)

• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations (second edition, 2002), by United States Department of Justice (HTML at cybercrime.gov)

• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (updated and expanded edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007), by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Eva Landau (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Warrantless Wiretapping: Hearings Before the Subcommitee on Administrative Practive and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session, on Practices and Procedures of the Department of Justice for Warrantless Wiretapping and Other Electronic Surveillance, June 29, 1972. (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Summary of Task Force Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities Disclosed in Rockefeller Commission Report (redacted draft; originally top secret; 1977), contrib. by George W. Calhoun and United States Department of Justice (PDF at gwu.edu)
• Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities (redacted copy; originally top secret; 1976), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at documentcloud.org)

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple foramts at niu.edu)

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Privacy and Human Rights, by Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center (full serial archives)

• Surveillance and Society (2002-) (full serial archives)

• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)

• L'Expertise en Écritures: Étude Théorique et Pratique (in French; 1907), by Pierre Humbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Electronic Evidence (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2017), ed. by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The World and the Individual: Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Josiah Royce
  • first series (The Fourt Historical Conceptions of Being): multiple formats at archive.org
  • second series (Nature, Man and the Moral Order): multiple formats at archive.org
• Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (second edition), by F. H. Bradley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scientific Fact and Metaphysical Reality, by Robert Brandon Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Illustrations of Lying, in All its Branches (from the second London edition; Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1829), by Amelia Opie (multiple formats at Google)
• A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics (1856), by H. Clay Trumbull (Gutenberg text)
• Tales: Being Illustrations of Lying, in All its Branches (with other edition; this title Cooperstown, NY: H. and E. Phinney, 1840), by Amelia Opie (PDF at archive.org)

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