1 HERE are social practices and virtues which, if we are to characterize them, require us to mention the truth. This is not the same as mentioning what other people hold true (their beliefs), or just mentioning what we regard as true (our own beliefs). We may contrast in this respect two different virtues of truth, which may be labeled sincerity and accuracy. Sincerity (at the most basic level)...

This article offers a close reading of two sections Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics, i.e., §70.1 “The True Witness” and §70.2 Falsehood Man” against the background post-truth environment. A brief discussion phenomenon highlights how some strands resistance to it trade on binary objective subjective approaches truth epistemology, insisting triumph former over latter as way overcoming problems know...

which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We live in a post-truth world. It now matters more whether people think something is true than whether something really is true. This is dangerous, and technology is at least partly to blame. So, as technologists, how can we help to fix this? 1 The demise of fa...

The choice to not study ‘actual use’ of feedback in clinical practice seems to me to be a flaw in research design, an inevitable consequence of which is that the study report is peppered with use of the conditional tense—‘would’ and ‘could’. In situating the study’s results in the world of the possible and not the actual, the authors mirror the common medical education practice of learning thro...