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41Criticism of postmodernism — has been intellectually diverse, but much of it has centered on the perception that postmodernism tries to deconstruct modernity and promote obscurantism in ways that are similar to reactionary movements of the past.[citation needed] Contents 1… …
42fraudulent — fraud·u·lent adj: characterized by, based on, or done by fraud compare deceptive, false, misleading fraud·u·lent·ly adv Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. M …
43deceptive — de·cep·tive /di sep tiv/ adj: tending or having capacity to deceive deceptive trade practices compare fraudulent, misleading Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
44dishonest — I adjective beguiling, bogus, cheating, conniving, conscienceless, contrary to fact, corrupt, corruptible, counterfeit, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, designing, destitute of good faith, destitute of integrity,… …
45feigned — I adjective apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, disguised, dishonest, disingenuous, evasive, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, hypocritical, illusory, imaginary …
46insincere — I adjective artificial, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, disreputable, dissembling, dissimulating, evasive, faithless, false, false league, fraudulent, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illegitimate, illusive, lying, mendacious,… …
47lying — pres part of lie Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. lying I …
48unscrupulous — I adjective base, conscienceless, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, dishonest, dishonorable, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, immoral, inequitable, iniquitous, lawless, perfidious, profligate, questionable, roguish, ruthless, shifty, sly,… …
49Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …
50Hume: moral and political philosophy — Rosalind Hursthouse INTRODUCTION Hume’s moral and political philosophy, like his epistemology and meta physics, originally appeared in A Treatise of Human Nature, (henceforth [7.1]), Book III of which, ‘Of Morals’, was published in 1740. He… …
