Here’s how to get to truth (or close to it) in the Information Age.
- learn how to think broadly
- reason from first principles
- take in information from multiple competing sources
- go direct to source to find information if possible
- employ occham’s/hanlon’s razor
- put aside personal bias
- consider what is likely true and not what you would like to be true
- don’t be afraid to switch your stance
- don’t be afraid of negative social consequences
- be prepared to be incorrect
Decentralizing the source of your knowledge is really the key to all this! I love the internet
Good list. I’d like to add:
- take into account historical experiences.
It’s more likely than not that what’s happening today isn’t new or special, and has probably happened before in a slightly different pattern. We’re no smarter than our ancestors and humans are cyclical.
Some great points there. I would recommend those interested to think for themselves study the trivium and learn about logical fallacies!
This sounds like too much work. I’m just going to listen to what the government officials and corporate media tell me.
Tldr fuck around, find out
The don't be afraid to change your stance may be the hardest for people. Once your mind is set on some "truth" with a little supporting evidence that's pretty much good enough for acceptance. It's hard when there is 10 different sources with 10 different narratives that hold some truth in each, for example nutrition. I think the best we can do is accept the fact that we don't know everything and be willing to take in new information as it comes. Truth is getting harder to figure out
This is a high view of human reason that is open to the possibility of knowing truth. It is admirable in the nihilistic culture we live in. How much postmodernism have you studied?
Even more importantly, have you spent any time with Benedict XVI and the Regensburg address?
I wouldn’t say I “study” postmodernism, but I’m aware of it and how it shows up in the world. Haven’t heard the address.
Postmodernism has some interesting points of intersection with Catholic anthropology and epistemology. Specifically, on the question of bias, and whether it's possible to eliminate personal bias and even more fundamentally, whether it's even desirable to do so were it possible. The objectivity of reason can, perhaps even must, be united to the subjectivity of love in order to be fully open to the truth, which , in Christianity, is not a proposition but a Person.
The Regensburg address may be one of the most important pieces of Christian philosophy in the 21st century to date. It literally got people killed....
Believing you can know objective truth is the first point in my argument for why Bitcoiners should be Catholic.
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