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In the Divergent series, the Candor faction is dedicated to practicing Radical Honesty. [9] Writer A.J. Jacobs devotes a chapter in his book The Guinea Pig Diaries to his attempts to live according to the precepts of Radical Honesty. Author Brandon Mendelson is a practitioner of a modified form [clarification needed] of Radical Honesty.
Duty of candour. In UK public law, the duty of candour is the duty imposed on a public authority 'not to seek to win [a] litigation at all costs but to assist the court in reaching the correct result and thereby to improve standards in public administration'. [1] Lord Donaldson MR in R v Lancashire County Council ex p.
CANDOR is method for negotiating content disputes, using the acronym for C ease, A sk, N ame, D iscover, O perate, R e-evalute. It is a method for preventing edit wars and ending fights that sometimes arise between editors. The word candor means honest and frank expression, and memorizing the CANDOR steps can be beneficial before an editorial ...
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity is a business leadership book written by former Apple and Google executive Kim Malone Scott. [1][2] In the book, Scott defines the term radical candor as feedback that incorporates both praise and criticism. [3] Unlike radical transparency or radical honesty, Scott says the ...
Honesty. Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness (including straightforwardness of conduct: earnestness), along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.
Candor or parrhesia, the quality of speaking candidly in rhetoric. Candour (magazine), a British far-right magazine. "Candour", a song by Neck Deep from their 2014 album Wishful Thinking. Duty of candour, a concept in British law. Candor, a 2009 speculative fiction novel by Pam Bachorz.
Cooperative principle. In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in common social situations—that is, how listeners and speakers act cooperatively and mutually accept one another to be understood in a particular way.
Sentence (linguistics) In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.