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When Truth and Reason Are No Longer Enough


Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri

She talks about asylum and immigration systems seemingly designed to find inconsistencies on which to base denials, about biases and reasons behind people not ...

Maya Angelou - "Be strong enough to tell the truth and... - Facebook

It's hard to generalize and make assumptions about all of the possible reasons that truth may not be received. I think that only what's ...

Say it Enough, They'll Believe It | Philosophy Talk

But then why does merely hearing something make us feel it's more likely to be true—even if we know it to be false? ... truth, reason, and ...

Skeptic » Reading Room » Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth Era

Though most ungulates are swifter than humans, they are poor at dumping heat, and if pursued long enough will keel over and can be dispatched ...

Richard Rorty · The Contingency of Language

... not to say that we have discovered that there is no truth out there. It is to ... If we move into it, we no longer have any reason to be consistent (or ...

The Shocking Truth: Well-being is Actually Progressing

But it is not. More than ever, the ideals of reason, science, humanism, and progress need a wholehearted defense. We take its gifts for granted: ...

The necessity of grace (Prima Secundae Partis, Q. 109) - New Advent

It would seem that without grace man can know no truth. For, on 1 ... And thus human nature undone by reason of the act of sin, remains no longer ...

Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds | The New Yorker

If reason is designed to generate sound judgments, then it's hard to conceive of a more serious design flaw than confirmation bias. Imagine, ...

Caritas in veritate (June 29, 2009) | BENEDICT XVI - The Holy See

A Christianity of charity without truth would be more or less ... There is no reason to deny that a certain amount of capital can do ...

Is There a Crisis of Truth? | Los Angeles Review of Books

There's no reason for complacency, but there is reason to ... That's not a very long list from which to establish a Crisis of Truth ...

My truth? Your truth? No truth? | Public Square Magazine

Consider to be unattainable or even non-existent? (Please take a moment—now—to reflect.) Interestingly enough, people may be spending more time ...

The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online - Pew Research Center

More specifically, the 51% of these experts who expect things will not improve generally cited two reasons: The fake news ecosystem preys on ...

Knowledge Cannot Be Justified True Belief - Evolutionary Philosophy

Sentimental reasons." He blushed and they said no more. The very next day she was about to cross the road when she heard a screeching of brakes and then an ...

How liars create the 'illusion of truth' - BBC

... not, and seemingly for the sole reason that they are more familiar. ... Scrupulosity: The obsessive fear of not being good enough. Shay was ...

Cheryl Strayed on Trusting Your Truest Truth and Having the ...

... enough," Cheryl Strayed reassures her younger ... reason— you no longer want to be with him. How can you know which truth is the most true?

Faith and Reason | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Isn't one truth enough? ... John Locke lived at a time when the traditional medieval view of a unified body of articulate wisdom no longer seemed plausible.

Principle of Sufficient Reason - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

No philosopher is more closely associated with the PSR than ... truth for which there could not be sufficient reason. But by the PSR ...

Abigail Adams and Power - Lesson Plan - America in Class

She contrasts it to “the visionary chains of Decency” and “the intellectual Beauty of Truth and reason. ... reason that citizens might not accept the new ...

Why Science Is Not Enough - The American Scholar

With this recognition I know that, although I remain in a small minority, I am no longer entirely alone. ... not the pure truth but the pursuit of ...

The Illusory Truth Effect: Why We Believe Fake News, Conspiracy ...

When a “fact” tastes good and is repeated enough, we tend to believe it, no matter how false it may be ... We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.