Small fnords aren’t terribly hard to find. You just squint at the situation and notice that something is amiss, and keep yourself from shutting down your mind in fear. This post has quite a few of them around, that’s what I was referring to.
As for a big one, well we don’t have the language for those. But I’ll give you this. One of them can be found as you probe deeper and deeper past the realization that truth and honesty are unrelated concepts.
Honesty is correlation with the speaker’s understanding of the facts; truth is correlation with the actual facts. A person can be speaking honestly but falsely, or truly but dishonestly, if their understanding is in some way less than perfectly correlated with the facts. What’s so fnordish about that?
What’s an example? [How about one small one and one big one?]
Small fnords aren’t terribly hard to find. You just squint at the situation and notice that something is amiss, and keep yourself from shutting down your mind in fear. This post has quite a few of them around, that’s what I was referring to.
As for a big one, well we don’t have the language for those. But I’ll give you this. One of them can be found as you probe deeper and deeper past the realization that truth and honesty are unrelated concepts.
You didn’t give any examples.
Honesty is correlation with the speaker’s understanding of the facts; truth is correlation with the actual facts. A person can be speaking honestly but falsely, or truly but dishonestly, if their understanding is in some way less than perfectly correlated with the facts. What’s so fnordish about that?