I think people often take for granted the idea that some process is taking place which has some hook into the real world (such that following it is more likely to yield truer beliefs than not doing so would), but I find very few people can explain what they think that mechanism is nor how it works. — Isaac
I think it's likely we can determine when it is badly executed e.g., when people make calls on life decisions based on someone's hair color or on numerology, or on what a clairvoyant tells them. — Tom Storm
To me it seems to be about a web of information which comes together to provide a kind of coherence and satisfaction. — Tom Storm
Do you have a tentative model for identifying when judgements are likely to be well founded? — Tom Storm
The idea of post-truth is so ambiguous because it can just be an excuse for the acceptance of falsity and dishonesty. — Jack Cummins
The era from which it probably stems from though is postmodernism and I do have a fair amount of sympathy for some of the postmodern writers, like Baudrillard and Derrida. I am not sure about Lacan because I have found his writings difficult to read — Jack Cummins
we need to shed our old habit of worshipping and making offerings to Veritas (truth) and switch allegiance to some other god/goddess. — Agent Smith
I didn't know that George Orwell wrote about the idea of a 'post-truth society' and it is interesting that he was able to perceive the possibility at that time. — Jack Cummins
it also follows that there are certainties. Hence the foolishness of 's suggestion...It is against a background of 'uncertainty' that such confusion about 'truth' often emerges. — Jack Cummins
1984 is an over-the-top personal story told against the background of a process that integrated the resistance against the State with the agenda being opposed. Nobody likes having the stuff they are resisting actually helping the opponent. — Paine
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