The issue of "what is truth" has an ancient history and is motivated by significant questions and challenges that have never been fully resolved. In today's world, particularly in collective thinking and in politics, this question has become hugely important. An inability to define shared truth or shared reality in any consensual way can be very dangerous to a democratic society. If even our leading philosophers and political leaders have challenges addressing this question, it makes sense to open this issue in the context of advanced epistemology.
This theme group opens this question.
"Are you being straight with me?"
What does that mean? What is "straightness" in the context of shared reality and judgment?
What is "bias" -- or the tendency to "slant" an interpretation? We see it all day in political news. How do we create a "straight" interpretation, and avoid a "biased" interpretation?
How do we speak "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
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