How do we construct coherent views of reality in a world of biased perspectives? How do we “make” truth that can help us live and act according to our values? I’m 52 years old, and that puts me at sort of a pivot point for …
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I had a sort of “a-ha” slowly emerge over the last few months, a realization that has prompted me to wrestle and share this long piece. The very people who are now saying truth is difficult to know, the very people yelling about “fake news”, …
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It’s true—media is biased. But so are you. And so am I. We each come from our own perspective, culture, and history, which gives each of us a bias. The problem comes, though, when we can’t see the bias in the air we breathe; when …
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Knowing what’s really true isn’t as self-evidently obvious as we once thought. (Spoiler alert: it never actually was). But pursuing truth (or coherence, or values, or whatever language you want to use to describe it)—pursuing truth is necessary hard work. This is something desperately important …
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