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Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by bjowen on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:23AM (#24038099)
Oh nobody’s even bothered to think about epistemology before.
Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by ksdale on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:33AM (#24038205)
I mean, I know you're joking, but people agree on the easy stuff (mostly, I guess), so all that's left to figure out is the hard stuff. It's true that people have spent thousands of years thinking about epistemology, but my impression is that it's not a solved problem at all.
Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by dataduck on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:29AM (#24038931)
I know right? Wittgenstein solved the whole thing in 1922 and yet here we are 100 years later, still acting like "knowing the truth" is a hard problem.

(Here's hoping I can avoid the wrath of Poe's law)

Re:The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free by mistermann on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:33AM (#24039003)
Wittgenstein demonstrated that knowing the truth is not hard? Does this refer to a particular publication or idea?