#falsification

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact." -- Charles Darwin

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photo by Fred Stein

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“The modern age, which believes that truth is neither given to nor disclosed to but produced by the human mind, has assigned, since Leibniz, mathematical, scientific, and philosophical truths to the common species of rational truth as distinguished from factual truth. I shall use this distinction for the sake of convenience without discussing its intrinsic legitimacy.

Wanting to find out what injury political power is capable of inflicting upon truth, we look into these matters for political rather than philosophical reasons, and hence can afford to disregard the question of what truth is, and be content to take the word in the sense in which men commonly understand it. And if we now think of factual truths, we at once become aware of how much more vulnerable they are than all the kinds of rational truth taken together. Moreover, since facts and events – the invariable outcome of men living and acting together – constitute the very texture of the political realm, it is, of course, factual truth that we are most concerned with here.

Dominion (to speak Hobbes’ language) when it attacks rational truth oversteps, as it were, its domain, while it gives battle on its own ground when it falsifies or lies away facts. The chances of factual truth surviving the onslaught of power are very slim indeed; it is always in danger of being maneuvered out of the world not only for a time but, potentially, forever.

Facts and events are infinitely more fragile things than axioms, discoveries, theories – even the most wildly speculative ones – produced by the human mind; they occur in the field of the ever-changing affairs of men, in whose flux there is nothing more permanent than the admittedly relative permanence of the human mind’s structure. Once they are lost, no rational effort will ever bring them back.”

–Hannah Arendt

(Memphis Muse)

[thirdity]

Any lying language creates at once in a single stroke a pseudo-reality, contaminating reality, until the Lie is undone. As soon as one lies one becomes separated from reality. One has introduced the falsification oneself. There is one thing no one can force you to do: to lie. One only lies for one's advantage. It is based on an inner decision invisible to the world.

Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

[vladimir777sk]

🛸 Очередной пример голографических технологий.

С такими возможностями ОНИ могут сфальсифицировать очень многое, от, например, ядерных взрывов и до вторжения пришельцев.

*Another example of holographic technologies. With such capabilities, THEY can fake a lot of things, from, for example, nuclear explosions to an alien invasion.

[fabricdragondesigns]

FAA Investigating Titanium Parts With Falsified Records In Boeing and Airbus Planes

The FAA is investigating the scope and impact of the issue.

[raglanphd]

[cure-your-delusions]

[palatinewolfsblog]

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

Günter Grass

And sometimes we shift  to - falsification...