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Why “My Truth” Isn’t “The Truth”
Why is “my truth” not “the truth”? My friend Rachel Fulton Brown will on Sunday at 2pm EST participate in a webinar titled “Dialogue with Dignity: Across Liberal-Conservative Divides.” The goal is admirable: people with different viewpoints will engage in … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged My truth, Postmodernism, Private experience, Realism, Solipsism, Subjectivism, Truth
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Can We See Past Our Own Foundations?
You can’t understand anything in terms of nothing. That much is obvious. What’s less obvious is that it’s a barrier to communication and understanding. Each of us has a foundational viewpoint that biases how we see the world. It includes … Continue reading
Posted in Epistemology, Philosophy, Political Science
Tagged Debate, Disagreement, Open-minded, Rationality, Truth
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Truth in All Its Varieties
Is truth always the same thing, or are there different kinds of truth? Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Jewish Philosophy, Judaism, Philosophy
Tagged Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy, Truth
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Peace Depends on Truth
My latest blog post for The Jerusalem Post: Truth can be a matter of life and death. That’s no surprise, since it’s happened many times in history. But I want to make a much more difficult argument: A theory of … Continue reading
Absolutely Relatively True
My new blog post for The Jerusalem Post: “Absolute truth.” People like that phrase. It sounds serious. It shows they are committed. No weasel words. No equivocation. They said something, they mean it, and it’s absolutely true. Menachem Kellner, a … Continue reading