Archive for December 19th, 2005
Evaluating Truth Claims
In the case of someone looking at “trusted sources” honesty is one of the criteria for subjective claims, but is not necessary for objective claims, since we all presumably have access to the same information. I suppose the need for trust comes in when we for some reason need to verify an information source that is not immediately available to us. In the case of the “echo chamber” mentioned by Miguel which concerns adopting opinions within an insular social network, those would fall within the normative-evaluative realm, and are a question of values about how the world should work.
Naming The Literate
To me, reading is any act of interpretation. We can read the weather, read a river, read a face, or read a room full of people. Since interpretations of the same phenomenon can vary from person to person, we recognize that a range of meanings for any text is possible depending on one’s point of view.
