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It Has Never Been So Hard to Determine the Truth
March 16, 2022 | Essay
I was brought up to believe that telling the truth was a fundamental ethic of being a good person. The nature of truth is a deep topic that has been debated for thousands of years, from Plato to Aristotle to Aquinas to Russell. The pragmatic theory I was taught was correspondence—the basic idea that what we believe or say is true if, and only if, it corresponds to the way things actually are—to the facts. But all these philosophers came before Photoshop and before facts were as fungible as they are today.
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