doesn’t this teach us something about the contextual nature of knowledge? It’s not just about access to a set of facts, arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant- whether that’s a 9/11 truther choosing to look at “anomalous” facts that give them a feeling of justification for taking bold speculative leaps about the hidden truth, or a liberal who focuses on the war crimes committed by conservatives as condemnatory while they ignore or downplay when liberals have committed similar atrocities or violated international laws.
The context determines how the facts are interpreted, what weight they are given, and how they shape behavior or even beliefs. People don’t just accumulate facts, knowledge and beliefs are complex, and subject to manipulation.
arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant
completely agree with you! “Truth” can take on different meanings from different viewpoints, what i was referring to that despite having better resources, being better equipped to inform ourselves in depth about any topic, we see polarised discourse where the purpose is not the search for ‘truth’, rather to win, reason and critical thinking seem to have taken a back seat.
Differences have existed and will continue to exist but how we deal with them hasn’t improved how it could have given the advancements in connectivity and information flow.
We have access to almost all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips yet we seem to be getting dumber than ever before.
doesn’t this teach us something about the contextual nature of knowledge? It’s not just about access to a set of facts, arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant- whether that’s a 9/11 truther choosing to look at “anomalous” facts that give them a feeling of justification for taking bold speculative leaps about the hidden truth, or a liberal who focuses on the war crimes committed by conservatives as condemnatory while they ignore or downplay when liberals have committed similar atrocities or violated international laws.
The context determines how the facts are interpreted, what weight they are given, and how they shape behavior or even beliefs. People don’t just accumulate facts, knowledge and beliefs are complex, and subject to manipulation.
@dandelion (she/her)
completely agree with you! “Truth” can take on different meanings from different viewpoints, what i was referring to that despite having better resources, being better equipped to inform ourselves in depth about any topic, we see polarised discourse where the purpose is not the search for ‘truth’, rather to win, reason and critical thinking seem to have taken a back seat.
Differences have existed and will continue to exist but how we deal with them hasn’t improved how it could have given the advancements in connectivity and information flow.
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