{"id":8597,"date":"2017-03-13T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T21:49:30","slug":"the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facts are True, the News is Fake | Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/incerto\/the-facts-are-true-the-news-is-fake-5bf98104cea2#.x74gt2kd1\" target=\"_blank\">The Facts are True, the News is Fake<\/a><br \/>\nHow to Disagree with Yourself<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"a466\" class=\"graf graf--h3 graf-after--p\">The Ethics of Disagreement<\/h3>\n<p id=\"018b\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">Now let us get deeper into the application of the Silver Rule in intellectual debates. You can criticize either what a person <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">said<\/em> or what the person <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">meant<\/em>. The former is more sensational, hence lends itself more readily to dissemination. The mark of a charlatan \u2013say the journalist Sam Harris \u2013is to defend his position or attack a critic by focusing on some of his\/her specific statement (\u201clook at what he said\u201d) rather than blasting his exact position (\u201clook at what he means\u201d or, more broadly, \u201clook at what he stands for\u201d), the latter of which requires an extensive grasp of the proposed idea. Note that the same applies to the interpretation of religious texts, often extracted from their broader circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/black-swans-debt-risk-and-mother-nature-taleb-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Cameron discussion, 2009<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facts are True, the News is Fake How to Disagree with Yourself The Ethics of Disagreement Now let us get deeper into the application of the Silver Rule in intellectual debates. You can criticize either what a person said or what the person meant. The former is more sensational, hence lends itself more readily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[175,914],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medium","tag-david-cameron","tag-sam-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8602,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}