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Thinking with Other People
What hope could there be for someone who is such a devoted member of the infamous Westborough Baptist Church (“God Hates Fags”) that she tweets missives such as this one: Thank God for AIDS! You won’t...
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Like-Minded vs Like-Hearted
If you want to find the truth, then the most dangerous place for you to be is in a group that already agrees with you. This is particularly true if membership in that group is based on shared thinking,...
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How to Assess a Website’s Trustworthiness – Part 5
I wrote the first four parts of this series a year ago, but something I recently read in How to Think brought the subject to mind again so here is another way to separate the internet’s wheat from its...
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The Morality of the Invisible Hand
There is a story that a high-level Russian official visited America during the Reagan presidency and was shown the abundance of goods in American stores. He was astonished at the bountiful display and...
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Last month, a commenter dropped this interesting nugget: God’s existence implies accountability’s existence… More broadly, our discussion was about whether morality can be grounded in a non-theistic...
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Nietzche’s Truth-Loving Test
In this blog, I have kept a running list of tests for telling whether you love the truth, including: Plato’s Truth-Loving TestC.S. Lewis’s Truth-Loving TestVoltaire’s Truth-Loving TestA Chess Player’s...
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A Fact-Checker’s Truth-Loving Test
Do you consider yourself a fact-checker and a lover of the truth? That’s admirable but I learned recently how easy it is to think that once we have checked the facts, we’re ready to speak. The...
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What If Life Is Not the Test You Think It Is?
When I was in elementary school, my teacher announced, “Kids, I have a test to give you today. It will test your ability to folow directions. When I pass it out in a moment, read the whole thing and...
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It’s OK If You Can’t Forgive
When ten Amish girls were shot in their one-room school in 2006, the story of their murder was quickly supplanted by the story of their families forgiving the murderer. The families’ ability to...
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After I wrote the post It’s OK If You Can’t Forgive, I came across this video of Oprah and TD Jakes. They promote a common definition of forgiveness, which is to let go of your anger toward an...
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