As never before, a lack of respect for the truth is shocking in public life, but there's a truth gap that has nothing to do with facts versus lies in politics. Rather, it has to do with how we verify ...

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We not only desire but need truth. We want to know, communicate, utilize, and be comfortable with the truth. It would make our world, lives, and decisions simpler and more effective. We are constantly ...

Today, we have relative truth, which is really the bending of truth to one’s own convenience. Truth is a formidable strength. It is the basis of morality. It, however, cannot be bent without being ...

I have been around for more decades than I wish to admit, but it is only in the past few years that I have heard people use the terms “my truth” or “your truth.” Doesn’t truth conform to facts and ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern philosophy insisted that truth is relative, that everyone has their own version of ...

People who primarily use their own gut feeling to determine what is true and false are more likely to believe conspiracy theories. That is the conclusion of researchers who have investigated the ...

Bob Dylan has a lyric that goes, “Man is inventing his doom/ First step was touching the moon,” but I think it goes back much further than that; at least to Albert Einstein and his pesky theory of ...

Rudy Giuliani recently exclaimed “truth isn’t truth” in a televised interview. He is part of an administration that has made thousands of false claims. But what is truth that is so badly disrespected ...