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On Truth & Reality Vocabulary
Reflections on what is real and how we know it
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The truth shall set you free
Knowledge of truth liberates from ignorance and bondage
“Biblical wisdom applied to everything from science to therapy.”
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Reality exceeds what our theories can capture
“Hamlet to Horatio: intellectual humility before mystery.”
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
The nature of reality is uncertain and layered
“Poe's meditation on the instability of perception.”
The medium is the message
The form of communication shapes its meaning as much as content
“McLuhan on how technologies restructure human experience.”
History is written by the victors
Those in power control the narrative of events
“A reminder to seek multiple perspectives on historical 'truth.'”
The map is not the territory
Models and representations differ from what they represent
“Korzybski's warning against confusing abstraction with reality.”
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Some things lie beyond the reach of language
“Wittgenstein's closing line of the Tractatus.”
Nothing is certain but death and taxes
Only these two things are truly inevitable
“Franklin's wry observation on life's guarantees.”
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