{"id":22075,"date":"2017-10-23T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T07:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2017-10-23T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T07:26:37","slug":"does-truth-really-matter-or-should-we-just-accept-that-people-have-different-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22075","title":{"rendered":"Does truth really matter? Or should we just accept that people have different views?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had dinner with some friends and we got to discussing truth &#8211; as you do. This is a subject I&#8217;ve thought about a lot, most recently in the so-called era of post-truth manifested by the utterances of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Why does truth matter? What\u00a0techniques do people use to deny truth? What\u00a0techniques should we use for determining truth? And what\u00a0techniques should we use for identifying non-truth?<\/p>\n<p>I have addressed these questions in my short essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/truth.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had dinner with some friends and we got to discussing truth &#8211; as you do. This is a subject I&#8217;ve thought about a lot, most recently in the so-called era of post-truth manifested by the utterances of President Trump. Why does truth matter? What\u00a0techniques do people use to deny truth? What\u00a0techniques should we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22079,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}