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Perhaps the notion itself is untenable, for in order for it to be true that we live in a post truth world, truth is required. I suspect that that is a...
August 13, 2017 at 17:00
Seems the earlier charge of folk not knowing what truth is and the role that it plays in all thought/belief and statements thereof has just played out...
August 13, 2017 at 16:57
Media puppet.
August 12, 2017 at 23:59
There used to be a time when more (secular)folk had a clue what counts as evidence, what counts as being justified, and what counts as being sufficien...
August 12, 2017 at 22:13
X-)
August 12, 2017 at 18:12
An order doesn't necessarily require the speaker to have well grounded belief about the order... It could be the case that the boss hasn't even consid...
August 12, 2017 at 03:40
X-) Says something about leaders and followers, amongst other things, if it's true...
August 11, 2017 at 01:41
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media... Indeed. That which matters...
August 10, 2017 at 05:28
When enough people...
August 10, 2017 at 05:21
Likewise. Life in general has never been better.
August 10, 2017 at 05:16
I would concur. So, "Jerry is under the box" qualifies as a belief, a sentence, a statement, Tom's belief, and the content of our and Tom's belief. Th...
August 10, 2017 at 05:06
Nice post jorndoe... Good to see you!
August 10, 2017 at 04:12
We can certainly learn something about a person by virtue of paying attention to whether or not they follow the same standards that they expect others...
August 10, 2017 at 04:04
That gave me a nice chuckle... out loud even. :-!
August 10, 2017 at 04:02
To summarize my own thoughts on the matter of 'post-truth'... I can make sense of it in but one way. If a "post-truth world" means to denote American ...
August 10, 2017 at 03:53
So, regarding the media talking heads' use of the term 'post-truth', I struggle to make sense of it. Some who've argued 'against' my writing here have...
August 10, 2017 at 03:38
So, I guess I'm struggling to set aside my original thoughts on the recent post-truth talk in American media. I mean, my original post here... note th...
August 10, 2017 at 03:31
I'd also like to note that I cannot meet Sands' standard regarding what counts as evidence if s/he doesn't clearly set that out. It's not worth wastin...
August 10, 2017 at 03:27
I'd like to note that Sand has denied that the rise of American pragmatism and American post-modernism has had an overarching influence upon public di...
August 10, 2017 at 03:25
What - exactly - could I provide to you Sand that would count as evidence, and perhaps more importantly; by what standard would you measure that which...
August 10, 2017 at 03:15
I'm asking you a simple question Sand. What - exactly - would you accept as evidence that what I said was part of an American public school curriculum...
August 10, 2017 at 03:05
What kind of evidence?
August 10, 2017 at 03:02
What kind of evidence?
August 10, 2017 at 03:00
What would count as my showing you that it is?
August 10, 2017 at 02:58
That is the curriculum. I'm merely commenting upon it. Do with that what you may Sand.
August 10, 2017 at 02:55
The overwhelming majority of Americans attend public school systems. If they are taught, and think in the aforementioned terms, they will work from a ...
August 10, 2017 at 02:51
Those aren't my notions... They're figments of your imagination.
August 10, 2017 at 02:49
Yeah, I think that the secular aspect of American society argued strongly against 'T'ruth, in the religious 'objective' sense and replaced it with 'tr...
August 10, 2017 at 02:34
Here's something else to consider... While I'm doing my normal thing - granting another's terms - and trying to make sense of an others' worldview, I ...
August 10, 2017 at 02:28
It's not that bad actors shouldn't be expected Mongrel. It's that when enough members of the society do not understand what truth is and how it works,...
August 09, 2017 at 15:58
Mill... my favorite pragmatist...
August 09, 2017 at 15:39
When one writes the rules that govern their own behaviour, without oversight, there can be no balance of power. Much like some hereabout show themselv...
August 09, 2017 at 06:46
So Cava, what sense does it make to just sit back and allow the legitimate bribery of American government? I mean, what sense does it make to just sit...
August 09, 2017 at 05:40
A deliberate abuse of language is a good sign of knowing better. That's worse than not.
August 09, 2017 at 05:30
Enough folk misunderstanding and/or neglecting truth is all it takes.
August 09, 2017 at 05:21
Nice extrapolation Cava... 8-)
August 09, 2017 at 05:14
It's always been that way... It's always been that way... It's always been that way... That's the pattern folks.
August 09, 2017 at 05:13
And he accuses others of delusion...
August 09, 2017 at 05:12
Sand... You could always quote me. Point out which claim is false and what makes it so. Nothing else suffices as ground for your objections.
August 09, 2017 at 05:07
This speaks towards the importance involved in who determines the framework underwriting any given topic...
August 09, 2017 at 04:58
So... Sand refuses to talk about what someone else means by "post-truth". AND... He has more than one method for doing so. One cannot assess another's...
August 09, 2017 at 04:55
Truth is a property of true statements. True statements are existentially contingent upon language. Language is man-made. Truth is man-made.
August 09, 2017 at 04:31
Are you denying a fundamental tenet of pragmatism?
August 09, 2017 at 04:30
Gratuitous assertions are not valid objections.
August 09, 2017 at 04:27
So... pragmatism came along and fooled enough people into thinking of truth as man-made, subjective, and what-not that the sheer size of the populatio...
August 09, 2017 at 04:13
You cannot assess my reasoning without talking about what I mean. You're too much.. Shakes head, laughs, and walks away...
August 09, 2017 at 03:56
There are obviously two different senses of the term "post-truth" at work here. Sand's and mine. I'm neither denying nor affirming the coherency of Sa...
August 09, 2017 at 03:50
It's always easiest to criticize another's position when one begins with misunderstanding, and then refuses to admit that much. Sigh... I've shown eno...
August 09, 2017 at 03:47
Solipsism at hand?
August 09, 2017 at 03:34
Do you recognize that two different people can have two different notions of what counts as a "post-truth" world?
August 09, 2017 at 03:33