A Theory of Truth in Autobiography
自传中的“真理”取决于一个人生活的可观察历史记录，观察到的生活越不吸引人，自传就越“真实”。这一结果不要求自传作者有不同诚实标准，但依赖于存在共同价值尺度以及所有自传都偏向“好”的假设。
SUMMARY The ‘truth’ in autobiography depends on the observable historical record of a person's life. The less attractive the observed life, the more ‘truthful’ is the autobiography. This result does not require differential standards of honesty among autobiographers. It does depend on the presupposition that there exists a common value scale along which lives may be judged, and upon the common directional bias toward the ‘good’ in all autobiography.