#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.

[the-owl-tree]

Winding up in the hospital for like half a year with a Warriors arc ongoing then coming back to the fandom sure is wild 😭 Did Squirrelflight actually become Squirrelstar? Did Frostpaw get spayed?? what's going on with these xenophobe cats. help

well you see before all that parsnipflower had opened the dark rift between the worlds, the immense celestial power that was one kept in chains between the border of starclan and the dark forest was unleashed onto the world of the clans giving them each comprehension of all animal knowledge on earth. roachskitter very quickly to harness the dark arts now given onto them, manifesting in them becoming the ultimate dark angel of the clans and reaping justice across all those who have wronged them. book six had bearsnuffle emerge from the celestial storm that had raged on for the arc, bearing the divine power of starclan and the ability to cleave through anything with their new found power. the arc ended with all three trapping the powers within themselves and, to ensure they never release onto the mortal plain again, are locked in a neverending fight within the storms in the sky.

also sorry to hear about the hospital thing!! hope ur doing better now!

[raglanphd]

[cure-your-delusions]