Tag: facts

• Reality, Shared and Unshared

  

  I deeply appreciated this post by Seth Godin, which outlines a schema for distinguishing “shared objective reality,” “shared cultural reality,” “unshared objective reality,” (think of Copernicus) and “unshared cultural reality” (think of Picasso). His four-fold table arranging shared and unshared by objective reality vs. cultural reality clarifies a lot! I think he simplifies “shared objective…

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  March 11, 2020

  Reading Out Loud

  culture, facts, ideas, reality, social construction of reality

• Fear, Logic, and Hiccups

  

  Patten, Bernard M. Truth, Knowledge, or Just Plain Bull: How to Tell the Difference. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] I have a history with this book. I read it once before, about 10 years ago, at least part-way through, while sitting in the surgery waiting room of…

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  March 5, 2020

  Read Me Project

  atheism, books, facts, logic, pragmatism, realism, reasoning, thinking

• Wise Up

  

  Is this the Bible warning us not to listen to “yes men”? Or, “alternative facts”? Maybe. The story is in 2 Chronicles 18 (and 1 Kings 22). King Jehoshaphat of Judah (one of the “good kings”) says “That’s not the way a king should talk! Let’s hear what he has to say” (New Living Translation).…

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  July 26, 2018

  Something New in the Bible

  Bible, facts, politics, religion, texts that aren't in the lectionary, wisdom