How do we know what is true and what is not?
I ask this in the relation to the lies and half truths that too many people believe and tell each other.
Carl Sagan had a few thoughts on the matter and I think they can be helpful. Hence his Baloney Detection Kit.
I particularly like the following quote of his.
"...In addition to teaching us what to do when evaluating a claim to knowledge, any good baloney detection kit must also teach us what not to do. It helps us recognize the most common and perilous fallacies of logic and rhetoric. Many good examples can be found in religion and politics, because their practitioners are so often obliged to justify two contradictory propositions..."
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