Bullshit, Truth, and Lies | Harry Frankfurt
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- A short intro to the difference between bullshit, truth, and lies. Based partly on the work of Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit, Princeton University Press. A fun discussion topic for philosophy 101 or a critical thinking class.
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John Muir writes of the American Dipper, or Water Ouzel: "He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows. Among all the mountain birds, none has cheered me so much in my lonely wanderings..."
For the rest of Muir's beautiful essay on the American Dipper:
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Frankfurt claims that bullshit is a greater enemy to truth than lies. Do you agree? And what about the possibility of a true lie-what do you think?
What about when people have a deeply held belief that twists the way they see everything. Imagine a creationist or flat earther who hides or twists real science. They care about the truth but misconstrue the facts - all they want is to make reality compatible with their view of it.
I think that I agree with you. But there is an interesting discussion in Bad Language by Cappelen and Dever that gives me pause. They suggest that perhaps when we believe what we are saying is false even thought it is in fact true, then perhaps we are trying but failing, to lie.
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Wow this was great. Informative and easy to follow as well. Nice job
I love the book, “On Bullshit.” I’ve learned a lot from it.
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well explained. Thanks
In the situation at the end the idea of bullshitting is interesting because it has no bearing on what is actually true or not to the speaker……UNLESS it is found that they are wrong, despite not caring about being right or wrong for the sake of truth.
Great stuff. Thank you!
I would like to hear more about conceptual framework
What would be the differences between bullshit and humbug?
Great question! Frankfurt addresses this directly in the opening of his essay. He says:
"I am uncertain just how close in meaning the word humbug is to the word bullshit. Of course, the words are not freely and fully interchangeable; it is clear that they are used differently. But the difference appears on the whole to have more to do with considerations of gentility, and certain other rhetorical parameters, than with the strictly literal modes of significance that concern me most. It is more polite, as well as less intense, to say “Humbug!” than to say “Bullshit!” For the sake of this discussion, I shall assume that there is no other important difference between the two."
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