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Paul Horwich's minimal theory of truth, also known as minimalism, takes the primary truth-bearing entities to be propositions, rather than sentences. According to the minimalist view then, truth is indeed a property of propositions (or sentences, as the case may be) but it is so minimal and anomalous a property that it cannot be said to provide ...
Both studies attributed this attitude to the nothing to hide argument. A qualitative study conducted for the government of the United Kingdom around 2003 [7] found that self-employed men initially used the "nothing to hide" argument before shifting to an argument in which they perceived surveillance to be a nuisance instead of a threat. [8]
Fact check: Trump says Biden didn’t run for president due to 2017 Charlottesville rally “He made up the Charlottesville story, and you’ll see it’s debunked all over the place.
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place.
It’s impossible to reconcile big-government dreams with the reality of the clowns who rule us. Presidential Debate Debacle Was a Great Argument for Smaller Government Skip to main content
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He argues that reasoned argument, the scientific method, fact-checking and critical thinking skills alone are insufficient to counter the broad scope of false information. Overlooked is the power of confirmation bias , motivated reasoning , and other cognitive biases that can seriously distort the many facets of mental 'immunity' (public ...
At one time, when false balance was prevalent, news media sometimes reported all positions as though they were equally credible, even though the facts clearly contradicted a position, or there was a substantial consensus on one side of an issue, and only a fringe or nascent theory supporting the other side.