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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to... by syzarian on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:26AM (#33854475)
There’s a theory that human reasoning evolved in such a way that humans collectively don’t search for the truth or the correct decision but rather for the most convincing reason. Whether or not this true it does appear to be how groups of humans act.
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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to... by svnt on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:38PM (#33855750)
Define truth, though.
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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to... by syzarian on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:39PM (#33856322)
In every language with a finite number of words there must be words that are not definable in terms of simpler words/concepts. Perhaps you’ve stumbled upon such a word with “truth”. I think it is obvious to most people reading what I wrote that what is meant though.
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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to... by lovemenot on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:29PM (#33859758)
I suspect your parent intended to imply that in practice "truth" is largely socially-generated. So your objective definition would be moot.

Not that I'd necessarily agree, its just an interpretation.

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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to... by Godel_unicode on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:21PM (#33860641)
A linguistic extension of godels second incompleteness theorem? Interesting.
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Re:Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political to... by Godel_unicode on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:31PM (#33860721)
The truth is the set of things which are true.
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