- What is true depends on perspective and experience
Slide 11 - Slide
Truth is what people agree upon?
Slide 12 - Slide
A
Left
B
Right
Slide 13 - Quiz
The Mandela Effect
When a large group of people remembers something which did not happen.
"Collective misremembrance" - "Confabulation"
Does that make it true? How is the 'other' truth better than their truth?
Slide 14 - Slide
Where do you 'get' your truth?
Slide 15 - Mind map
The rest of this semester we will discuss:
Philosophy about 'truth'
Competing ideas about 'truth' in different religions
Fiction & Non-fiction
Post-truth
Slide 16 - Slide
Assignment 1: Before checking your books or Google, come up with a question about 'truth' that you would like to answer this semester.
Slide 17 - Open question
Assignment 2: now go through your book (Ch 1) or Google and come up with at least 1 suggestion for a topic which you would find interesting / important to discuss.
Slide 18 - Open question
Assignment 3: write down a discussion question or statement about 'truth'.
Slide 19 - Open question
What did you think of this class? (tips & suggestions welcome)