Stanley Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 807628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7627-7696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hedging the truth: The evaluation of truth under deceptive (un)certainty
Researchers from various disciplines—linguistics, law, and philosophy—have long recognized an important distinction between lying and merely misleading, arguing that false explicit content constitutes lying, whereas false implicit content is merely misleading. Recent experimental work has challenged this distinction, showing that a statement conveying false implicit content may be judged as a lie, even if it is explicitly true. This study offers …
Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures
Lies and falsehoods play an important role in our lives, be they lies told in everyday conversation or false information spread on social media websites. But when exactly do people consider a statement to be an instance of lying, or to be false, and do these judgments differ between cultures? In the present article, we shed new light on these questions by examining to what extent implicit content affects judgments of lying and falsity. Three thou…
Scales and inferences
Scalar inferences (SIs) are upper-bounding inferences associated with the use of semantically lower-bounded scalar expressions. One of the current debates regarding these inferences concerns their inferential pattern, specifically whether SIs are uniform or diverse across scales. This study follows the work on scalar diversity yet introduces two changes: First, we reexamine, from a different perspective, two structural properties of scales identi…
“I Wonder Which of You is Real”
In response to Judith Yaross Lee's introduction of a framework designed to probe the relationship between empire and American humor, this article analyzes John Kneubuhl's “The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo,” a 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West (1965-69). Kneubuhl (1920-92) was a Samoan American playwright who wrote for theater, television, and film. Like Mark Twain, he demonstrated a lifelong interest in the trope of the confidence man. In “Th…
Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis
Strangers in Our Own Land”: John Kneubuhl, Modern Drama, and Hawai‘i Five-O
Widely acclaimed a foundational Oceanic playwright, Samoan American dramatist John Kneubuhl also wrote dozens of television scripts for programs such as The Fugitive and The Wild Wild West . As with his stage-dramas, many of these teleplays represent a masterful orchestration of diverse cultural traditions—an aesthetic nowhere more clear than in “Strangers in Our Own Land” (1968). In this early episode of Hawaii Five-O , Kneubuhl looks to his pas…
Strangers in Our Own Land”: John Kneubuhl, Modern Drama, and Hawai‘i Five-O
Widely acclaimed a foundational Oceanic playwright, Samoan American dramatist John Kneubuhl also wrote dozens of television scripts for programs such as The Fugitive and The Wild Wild West . As with his stage-dramas, many of these teleplays represent a masterful orchestration of diverse cultural traditions—an aesthetic nowhere more clear than in “Strangers in Our Own Land” (1968). In this early episode of Hawaii Five-O , Kneubuhl looks to his pas…
“I Wonder Which of You is Real”
In response to Judith Yaross Lee's introduction of a framework designed to probe the relationship between empire and American humor, this article analyzes John Kneubuhl's “The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo,” a 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West (1965-69). Kneubuhl (1920-92) was a Samoan American playwright who wrote for theater, television, and film. Like Mark Twain, he demonstrated a lifelong interest in the trope of the confidence man. In “Th…
Predicating Truth: An empirically based analysis
Scales and inferences
Scalar inferences (SIs) are upper-bounding inferences associated with the use of semantically lower-bounded scalar expressions. One of the current debates regarding these inferences concerns their inferential pattern, specifically whether SIs are uniform or diverse across scales. This study follows the work on scalar diversity yet introduces two changes: First, we reexamine, from a different perspective, two structural properties of scales identi…
Hedging the truth: The evaluation of truth under deceptive (un)certainty
Researchers from various disciplines—linguistics, law, and philosophy—have long recognized an important distinction between lying and merely misleading, arguing that false explicit content constitutes lying, whereas false implicit content is merely misleading. Recent experimental work has challenged this distinction, showing that a statement conveying false implicit content may be judged as a lie, even if it is explicitly true. This study offers …
Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures
Lies and falsehoods play an important role in our lives, be they lies told in everyday conversation or false information spread on social media websites. But when exactly do people consider a statement to be an instance of lying, or to be false, and do these judgments differ between cultures? In the present article, we shed new light on these questions by examining to what extent implicit content affects judgments of lying and falsity. Three thou…
Philosophy (4 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)