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1. Bots

are based on people's beliefs and values-lack traditional standards of objectivitySocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.

2. Postmodernism

3. alternative facts

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.are based on people's beliefs and values-lack traditional standards of objectivity

4. Opinions

The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.are based on people's beliefs and values-lack traditional standards of objectivityif you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionSocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.

5. Powerful Truths

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionSource of Truth: power - Those with power and influence spin the truth in ways that suit them. - 'Who benefits from this version of the truth?' - Philosopher Michel Foucault: what we call truth is merely the expression of power. - Truth is not power, but power can capture truth and spin it. Real truths exist independent of those created by the powerful. - Truth is not just a power struggle between people with different ideologies. - We can 'speak truth to power' -- Truth can overcome power. - Power doesn't speak truth; truth must speak to power

6. Post truth world/post truth era

if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionSocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.In this time the truth is unknowable/undiscoverable. Every fact is seen through the lenses of personal experience and beliefs and therefore neutral or objective views are impossible

7. Authoritative (epistemic truths)

Epistemic authority = an authority on truth - Source of Truth: Authority - Source: divine (Pope, monarchs) - Spiritual expertise—miracles, clairvoyance - Source: experts - Secular expertise—authorities on their subject (education, credentials, experience)The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

8. Moral Truths

The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.Source of Truth: Morality - Problem becomes: 'Who are we to judge?' = moral judgements involve facts about the rightness or wrongness of actions. - There are no moral 'facts'—no empirical discovery could demonstrate that an action in 'wrong' - If moral judgments are just expressing a preference, our 'ethical taste,' then they also cannot be disputed—relativism is the logical consequence. - Hume: we must rely on 'fellow-feeling' (moral sympathy)—the perspective of the victim. 'if you cannot 'feel' or 'see' why life is of value, no logical argument could persuade you to think otherwise.' - Our feelings are shaped by what we take to be true, so correcting false perceptions alters our moral judgements (slavery, Holocaust) 'When facts change, we should not only change our minds but often our hearts'—moral progress. - Our moral views are connected with how we see the world—skewed perception leads to skewed morality, false beliefs to bad ethics (terrorists, racists) - Prejudice (pre-judgement) = reaching a conclusion before we have seen the relevant facts. - For a better morality we need better knowledgeif you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

9. Post-truth

relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal beliefThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionSocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.

10. Reasoned truths

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Source of truth: reason and logic. Facts + First Principles = Understanding - Rationalists: Descartes & Spinoza - Reason is superior to observation—the world beyond senses - Deductive logic—making inferences on the basis of sound reasons. - Problem: logic requires simplification, removal of ambiguity & complexity—creates illusion of clarity that may disguises the truth. - 'light of reason is never pure and even when it shines clearly we only see what is directly under it, not what lies elsewhere in the dark' - Reason must be blended with logic, experience, evidence, judgement, subtlety and sensitivity to ambiguity - Reason should be used to avoid being too confident in the rationality and truth of our own beliefs - Reason can help us get closer to the truth—and understand the traps of irrationality. - Reason demands modesty, not certaintyif you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

11. Falsehood

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.a way of subverting the truth, saying untrue things by mistakeif you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.

12. Non-contingent truths

The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionSocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.true in all possible circumstances or none.

13. Relativism

the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absoluteSocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

14. Creative

The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Source of Truth: created by actions or words - Difficult to distinguish between those who are creating truth and those who are creatively hiding or disfiguring it. - In the Art of the Deal, Trump discusses the usefulness of so-called 'Truthful hyperbole'—he called it an 'innocent form of exaggeration' and said, 'it's a lie, but who cares?' - Words can change truths, and new truths can change words. - Construction, bombing, public policy can change truths. - Truths can be created as well as foundSocial media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

15. fact checking

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.to confirm the truth of; often as part of the research or editorial process.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

16. Systematic

a critical thinking attitude DEFINITION: 1.Alertness to opportunities for critical thinking 2.Routinely justifying reasoning in terms of standards and contextual factors used CHARACTERIZED BY: - Scientific Method - Experimentation/observation and analysis - Disciplined arguments that use logic and reasonThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

17. Propositions

if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionstatements that propose/suggest a fact/truth.Philosophers speak in terms of this.There are declarative statements that are either true or false.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.

18. Philosopher David Hume

if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.Relations of Ideas: truths of math, geometry, logic. - True by definition but tell us nothing about the real world. - Absolute certainty—purely conceptual. - Matters of Fact: cannot be established by pure logic, therefore cannot be established with 100% certainty. 'The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible.' -

19. Empirical truths

Source of truth: Experimentation (trial & error) & evidence. - Conclusions should be grounded in evidence. - Empirical= from experience. Experience is the arbiter of truth. - Evidence is often elusive, absent, ambiguous, & inconclusiveThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

20. Eternal (revealed) truths

21. Truthiness

22. Correspondence theory

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.In a realist theory, the truth can be uncovered. A proposition is true provided there exists a fact corresponding to it. Truth is a relationship between the proposition and a fact.The idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusion

23. Echo Chamber

if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.The idea that people pay attention to media that conforms to their ideological view to the exclusion of media that offer alternative perspectives.

24. Science Denialism

if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionArgument scientific theories Can not be proven- none can it is the most reliable and well-founded evidence- so if you disagree you can find alternative facts and studies that suggest otherwise or even fund your own scientific studies if you have the moneyThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.

25. open-minded

Social media platforms are home to millions of social bots that spread fake news. Bots tend to be particularly good for spreading massive numbers of highly emotional messages with little informational content.if you disagree with scientific findings on something, its to falsely create alternative facts and still seem credible.Find your own experts,research, claim there is two-sides to the story,push your findings into the media,lobby the government and create public confusionThe idea that there is no such thing as objective truth.Critical thinking attitudes DEFINITION: 1.Regard for divergent world views 2.Flexibility in considering alternative & opinions 3.Willingness to reconsider and revise views where honest reflection suggests change is warranted. CHARACTERIZED BY: - Seeking and considering information that conflicts with what you believe - Welcoming difference and diversity - Seeking compromise - Seeking understanding

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