Seeking Truth in Colombia: Perspectives on a Truth Commission

Seeking truth on Monte Verita

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Rational action and truth-seeking

Seeking truth using different methods

Mathematics and physics are entirely different subjects, both in their methodology and results. The differences are illustrated with how they view randomness, enumeration, and truth. In physics, randomness can be an unknown, an observational error, an unpredictable event, or a quantum mystery. In math it is just part of probability theory. Mathematics has subtle properties of infinities that ph...

Truth be told-perspectives on openness.

is no easy contentment for me right now. And I will write honestly for you. When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with stage iv Ewing sarcoma. A cancer that typically appears around puberty. Sixteen was actually unusually old for this disease. I was told that with aggressive treatment, I had a thirty or forty percent chance of being declared cured. I was also told that if I were to relapse, then ...

A Carnival of Truth? Knowledge, Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

This article examines the ongoing work of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which is charged with addressing that country’s past policy of attempting forcibly to assimilate indigenous children in residential schools. It examines the TRC’s mandate and its activities while assessing the Commission’s conceptions of truth and reconciliation by placing these ideas in their soci...