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The William Lynch speech, also known as the Willie Lynch letter, is an address purportedly delivered by a William Lynch (or Willie Lynch) to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. [1] In recent years, it has been widely exposed as a hoax. [2] [3]
Charles Lynch's extralegal actions were legitimized by the Virginia General Assembly in 1782. [1] In 1811, Captain William Lynch claimed that the phrase "Lynch's Law", already famous, actually came from a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbours in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to uphold their own brand of law independent of legal authority.
William Lynch (diplomat) (c. 1730–1785), British Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Minister to Sardinia; William Lynch (Lynch law) (1742–1820), claimed to be the basic cause of the "lynch law" term; William Lynch (Maryland politician) (1788–1857), American politician from Maryland; William A. Lynch (1844–1907), Ohio lawyer and ...
Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s. [8] Charles Lynch is more likely to have coined the phrase, as he was known to have used the term in 1782, while William Lynch is not known to have used the term ...
Meanwhile, you re-worded the introduction to say that William Lynch gave the speech, and we've yet to see any source that verifies this (for one thing, the attributed Lynch was born 30 years after the speech). I have adjusted the inrtroduction and removed "disputed" (there are better ways to flag problems, by the way: see WP:TMAIN).
The Image of the City is a 1960 book by American urban theorist Kevin Lynch. The book is the result of a five-year study of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make mental maps. Lynch's conclusion was that people formed mental maps of their surroundings consisting of five basic ...
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Lynch's primary work is as one of the foremost developers of the pluralist theory of truth. He argues that truth is a functional concept, i.e. a concept which is defined in terms of platitudes characterizing its theoretical role in our inquiry, following functionalism in the philosophy of mind (see functionalism (philosophy of mind) .