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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Saturday August 20, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:07 pm
Truth vs. Bullshit

Background:
For an essay on the above topic
from this week’s New Yorker,
click on the box below.

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Representing truth:

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Rebecca Goldstein

Representing bullshit:

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Apostolos Doxiadis

Goldstein’s truth:

Gödel was a Platonist who believed in objective truth.

See Rothstein’s review of Goldstein’s new book Incompleteness.

Doxiadis’s bullshit:

Gödel, along with Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, and Heisenberg, destroyed a tradition of certainty that began with Plato and Euclid.

“Examples are the stained-glass
windows of knowledge.” — Nabokov

1 Comment

  1. The essence of bullshit, Frankfurt decides, is that it is produced without any concern for the truth. Bullshit needn’t be false: “The bullshitter is faking things. But this does not mean that he necessarily gets them wrong.”

    As I’m fond of saying, “If it’s a paradox, it’s probably true.” 
    Just more bullshit.

    It just goes around and around . . .

    Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Sunday, August 21, 2005 @ 3:06 am

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