One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
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One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is somuch bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes hisshare.
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit
Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit
On Bullshit
The document discusses the nature and prevalence of bullshit, distinguishing it from lying and exploring its connection to skepticism and the pursuit of personal sincerity.
www2.csudh.eduIt is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit.
Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.
Harry Frankfurt • On Bullshit
bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality, and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are.