Wikipedia is by now ubiquitous as the first port of call for information on any and all areas of knowledge. Most of us appreciate its immediacy and its reach, even while admitting its faults. But on a broader scale, what are its possible consequences for the future of human knowledge? [Read more →]

I wrote in a previous post (Does Truth Exist?) that we assume that truth exists in all our speech and thoughts, and that it would be impossible to truly speak or think otherwise: if I think, “truth does not exist,” I really mean, “truly, truth does not exist”—a logical contradiction. No functioning human—or sentient being for that matter—can reasonably live on the opposite assumption. [Read more →]

As far as I am able to see, there are only two positions one can adopt in answer to this. They are: “truth exists” and “truth does not exist”. One cannot say “truth sometimes exists”, because that means that it does. Nor can one say “truth is subjective”, because there are otherwise no true standards by which we can measure its validity. Saying “maybe truth exists” is neither here nor there. [Read more →]