[Arlo had said]
I think our culture (America) values "truthiness".
[Squonk]
I'm not sure what you mean, but as i think about it i'm thinking that
you think your culture values truth-likeness?
[Arlo]
Going with the Wikipedia entry, truthiness is "things that a person
claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to
evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts." I think it
derives from our soundbite culture that spins complex issues into
pithy ideological slurs in order to gain a consensus by bypassing
"evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts" (often by
appealing to "fear" and "outrage"). Often these are things we "want
to be true", ideological premises that make us "feel good" to
believe. This is what our culture demands, and this is what we are
fed. "Evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts" just takes
too damn long, is the domain of the pointy-headed wretched, takes us
away from American Idol and Jerry Springer. As Colbert commented in
christening his "word", "Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal
was finished in 1914? If I want to say it happened in 1941, that's my right."
[Squonk]
If information has truthiness then the information may be said to
remind one of the truth while not actually being true? And this is sufficient.
[Arlo]
Absolutely. Peirce may have referred to this as something like
"tenacity validated by selective authority".
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