Bernard Williams

Also known as Bernard Rollen Williams, III, Bernard Rollen Williams III

American track and field athlete, sprinter, Olympic gold medalist

Person · Open Library

Works: 45

Top works

Fröhliche Wissenschaft
Truth and Truthfulness
Rene Lalique
Morality
Jailbait; the Story of Juvenile Delinquency

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1932-02-08

2008 universal fire victimacademy award winneramericanamerican composercinematic classicalclassical

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 42
Total plays: 257

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,226x
A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 27,817x
Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 23,577x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,840x
Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,906x

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Quotes

“Two currents of ideas are very prominent in modern thought and culture. On the one hand, there is an intense commitment to truthfulness--or, at any rate, a pervasive suspiciousness, a readiness against being fooled, an eagerness to see through appearances to the real structures and motives that lie behind them. Always familiar in politics, it stretches to historical understanding, to the social sciences, and even to interpretations of discoveries and research in the natural sciences.”
“If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.”
“Deniers do not get their views just from simple mistakes about language and truth. Rather, they believe that there is something to worry about in important areas of our thought and in traditional interpretations of those areas; they sense that it has something to do with truth; and (no doubt driven by the familiar desire to say something at once hugely general, deeply important, and reassuringly simple) they extend their worry to the notion of truth itself.”
“Positivism ... implies the double falsehood that no interpretation is needed, and that it is not needed because the story which the positivist writer tells, such as it is, is obvious. The story he or she tells is usually a bad one, and its being obvious only means that it is familiar.”
“As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know."”

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