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Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre
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“Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information.”
Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth
“When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even.”
Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth
“intentionally false. It is like lying. It is created for the purpose of getting someone to believe what one is saying, even if one knows that it is not true.”
Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth
“The Oxford Dictionaries define “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” In this, they underline that the prefix “post” is meant to indicate not so much the idea that we are “past” truth in a temporal sense (as in “postwar”) but in the sense that truth has been eclipsed—that it is irrelevant.”
Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth
“Turite teisę į savo nuomonę, tačiau ne į savo faktus.”
Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth
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