Afterall.net

Consider all. Test All. Hold on to the good.

Illogic Primer Quotes Clippings Books and Bibliography Paper Trails Links Film

Bret Stephens on the Many Angles of the Truth

Bret Stephens, "Free Speech and the Necessity of Discomfort" in The New York Times (February 22, 2018).

[T]he truth is neither relative nor illusory nor a function of the prevailing structure of power — but also … the truth is many-sided; … none of us has a lock on it; and … we can best approach it through the patient accumulation of facts and a vigorous and fair contest of ideas.

Related
True to Life Why does truth matter, when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant? Why be concerned over an abstract idea like truth when something that isn't true…
On Truth Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's…
H.L. Mencken on a Pandering Skeptic What appears in them is not a weakness for ideas that are stale and obvious, but a distrust of all ideas whatsoever. The public, with its mob yearning to be…
Truth (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth. It draws together, for the first time, the debates between philosophers who favor…
Richard Dawkins on Science Is it just our Western scientific bias to be impressed by accurate prediction, to be impressed by the power to sling rockets around Jupiter to reach Saturn, or intercept and…

Leave a Reply