Tag: Fake news

• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning

  Truth is an interesting concept don’t you think? In a way, it is an autological word which often prefers to use itself for its own definition: Truth is, well, Truth; it describes what is… Still, there was a time when I thought I understood it as something else -something more…sacred perhaps. But now I’m not…

  gozzter

  November 9, 2022

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  accuracy, Bernard Williams, Brookings Institute, errors, ethics, Fake news, false news, intentions, lies, Richard V Reeves, sincerity, trust, Truth, truthfulness, untruths, Vancouver

• 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…

  gozzter

  January 6, 2021

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  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

• Is your wisdom consumed in confidence?

  How do we know what we know? It’s a question I used to think was obvious: if we cannot investigate the answer ourselves, we turn to others –somebody will know. Even the polymaths of old relied on other people for the groundwork on which they built. Nobody can know everything -knowledge is a jigsaw puzzle,…

  gozzter

  November 6, 2019

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  Andrew Wakefield, autism and vaccination, CNRS, Fake news, Fleischmann-Pons hypothesis, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Friedrich Hayek, Gloria Origgi, knowledge, Lancet, reputation age, reputational devices, reputational path, running apps, sources, trust