Truth in a Post-Truth Age

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Truth in a Post-Truth Age
Jenny Mackness, Jenny Connected, 2018/10/01
Jenny Mackness writes in this article of "the necessity, as expressed by both Ghandi and Nietzsche, to recognise that human beings can only know partial and contingent truths and perspectives; there are a multiplicity of truths and perspectives." And she points out that we've lived through "post-truth" eras before (one of which was the one that started with the first newspapers). More...