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By default, InstaGov uses "truth" in first and second senses – either objective truth or our current best approximation to it. | By default, InstaGov uses "truth" in first and second senses – either objective truth or our current best approximation to it. | ||
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| + | The [[debate mapper]] is intended as a tool to help with refining the '''most-likely truth''' from the raw ore of random information and disinformation. | ||
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Revision as of 20:45, 18 December 2019
The word truth has at least the following widely-recognized meanings:
- objective truth: a thing we will never know precisely but can only approach asymptotically as we better understand the mechanisms by which it operates
- most-likely truth: that which is best supported by the currently-available evidence
- believed truth: that for which there is a consensus belief within some group
- received truth: that which is held to be true because it has been received from an appropriate authority
Our Usage
By default, InstaGov uses "truth" in first and second senses – either objective truth or our current best approximation to it.
The debate mapper is intended as a tool to help with refining the most-likely truth from the raw ore of random information and disinformation.