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Brute-Forcing Truth…
Where successfully arguing a point becomes more important than being correct, it doesn’t really matter when you really are correct…
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Axiomatic Relativity
Any ideological or political position for the most part represents that presentation layer or surface representation of a system of thought; itself possessing it’s own axiomatic assumptions, theorems and conclusions…
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Meta-Psychology
Finding ourselves not so much imprisoned as set free by a shadowy and indistinct world of probability, complexity and uncertainty is in some way strangely comforting…
Axiomatic emptiness…
…assumptions about the essential characteristics or axioms of any system of explanation are specific (delimited) to that system of explanation…
…by “mask” we might mean that social aspect and external face we wear to present our self-cultivated image to the world…
Belief has always been quite easily uncoupled from reality…
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Truth and Falsity
The confusion, ambiguity and uncertainty concerning Truth and Falsity in the statements and assertions people and organisations make in the media and online in our shared information spaces is a natural, endemic part of cultural and organisational communications systems.
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Facebook Tackles Fake News
Facebook provides an attempted technical solution in this opening salvo of the online Truth Wars…
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Fake News
If you can not sufficiently defend your own actions and assertions in the public arena without resorting to infantile name-calling in lieu of constructing comprehensive, intelligent defence of your ideological assertions and political positions – you are probably not qualified for the job…
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Alternate Facts: Fake Realities
Wow. It didn’t take long for that to escalate. “Post-truth” has now found itself instantiated as “alternate fact” in popular media discourse. Trump’s press secretary did not (strictly speaking) lie, he expressed an “alternate fact”. Not only have we gone beyond an investment in the integrity of at least partial credibility or claim to verifiable […]
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