How Your Power Silences Truth Megan Reitz

How your power silences truth | Megan Reitz Posts where this video is embedded Megan Reitz   Facilitator, teacher, speaker, executive coach, researcher and author People: Megan ReitzMegan Reitz Facilitator, teacher, speaker, executive coach, researcher and author Books: Megan ReitzBeing Silenced and Silencing Others: Developing the Capacity to Speak Truth to Power Megan Reitz, John Higgins How … Continue reading How Your Power Silences Truth Megan Reitz

Perils of Absolute Certainty Peter Boghossian

Few things are more dangerous than people who think they’re in possession of absolute truth. Credit: Peter Boghossian People: Peter BoghossianPeter Boghossian American philosopherPosts: Peter BoghossianImpossible Conversations Navigating conversations across ideological dividesBooks: Peter BoghossianHow to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (2019)Impossible Conversations Peter Boghossian (2019)Impossible Conversations Navigating … Continue reading Perils of Absolute Certainty Peter Boghossian

No Truth Is Without Some Mixture of Error by Wilbur Wright

No truth is without some mixture of error, and no error so false but that it possesses no element of truth. If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error, he is liable to give up some truth with it, and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some errors with it. Honest argument is merely a process of mutually picking … | Wilbur Wright Continue reading No Truth Is Without Some Mixture of Error by Wilbur Wright

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Critical Thinking Bertrand Russell

Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by concealing … | Bertrand Russell Continue reading Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Critical Thinking Bertrand Russell

There Is Beauty in Truth, Even If It’s Painful José Harris

There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one’s character, one’s mind, one’s heart or one’s soul. | José N. Harris Continue reading There Is Beauty in Truth, Even If It’s Painful José Harris

How Could We Be Wrong? Is a crucial question to ask in a conversation

The Socratic Elenchus The Two Pillars of Truth Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Conversational Leadership emphasizes the importance of intellectual humility and open-mindedness in discussions. Polarization and confirmation bias can stifle productive conversations on complex issues. … Continue reading How Could We Be Wrong? Is a crucial question to ask in a conversation

The Two Pillars of Truth How the scientific method and Socratic elenchus underpin civilization

How Could We Be Wrong? Conclusion: Two Pillars of Truth Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close The pursuit of truth is a fundamental human endeavor. However, arriving at the truth can be challenging, as our beliefs and … Continue reading The Two Pillars of Truth How the scientific method and Socratic elenchus underpin civilization

Knowledge and Information ** Knowledge and information are different substances

What Are Morals? The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Knowledge … Knowledge Our mind contains beliefs. We don’t know how these beliefs are stored, but it does not matter for my … Continue reading Knowledge and Information ** Knowledge and information are different substances

Learn to Listen and to Tell the Truth Do we listen, to confirm what we already think or do we listen in order to reply?

The Mind Is a Fire to Be Kindled The Fourth Industrial Revolution Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Do we listen, to confirm what we already think or do we listen in order to reply? Or do … Continue reading Learn to Listen and to Tell the Truth Do we listen, to confirm what we already think or do we listen in order to reply?