Tag: David Hume
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Fake lies?
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about truth, but not for the reasons you might expect. Not because of the abundance of ‘fake news’ about which we seem to be constantly reminded, and not necessarily because I’ve been occasionally embarrassed in a lie, nor because of the tangled web you wove when first you practiced…
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Aeon.co, Albert Camus, assertions, authorial authority, boundary markers, David Hume, deception, edges, Emar Maier, ethics, Fake news, fiction, George Orwell, H.P. Grice, imagination, imaginative resistance, lies, literary fiction, literature, Plato, reportage, Sir Philip Sidney, speech acts, the paradox of fiction, trespassing, Truth, University of Groningen
musings on women's health 