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Few questions today are more salient or more vital than the ones we’re asking about truth. Who determines the truth? How do we know when it’s true? Does it even matter? Can my truth be different from your truth? And what happens if it is? These issues have arisen alongside a parallel question about lies and falsehood. Google Trends shows that the p
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This is one of the biggest issues facing our society: how we interact with and shape information.
We aren’t aspiring to think critically, to be intellectually honest. Not every viewpoint is going to be right. You have an obligation to go issue by issue and to acquit yourself of your own opinions.
How you react to the truth, of course, is a matter of conscience. You can ignore it and hope that no one notices, or you can adjust to it. But if, for the sake of people’s feelings, you can be made to admit, or even worse to believe, that what’s true is false, or what’s false is true, then you’re lost. Intellectually and morally, you’re lost.