As with any group that brings change, the Innovators are going through the 3 Stages of Truth articulated by Arthur Schopenhauer – first it is ridiculed, second is violently opposed and finally it is accepted as fact.
And, if we fail to ensure the trustworthiness of facts at any stage of the truth-seeking process, what do our ideals and principles of justice mean?
America embraces the challenge of defending on a global stage the ideals of truth, justice, and democracy -- to do so effectively, we must demand openness, accountability, and humanity from our own military and from our government.
The subsequent stages of evaluation of truth value of information would involve using the identified metrics to establish the credibility of the source and estimate the general acceptability of the message.
We're tossed onto the stage of a profound truth, where literature outperforms anything else.
The star, who kicked off his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" stage show in Detroit on Saturday, was booed off the stage as he berated the audience and spoke incoherently, stringing together a series of catchphrases that had both lost him his job on sitcom "Two and a Half Men" and turned him into an internet star/curiosity.
He talks through his nose, in rapid jags that sound like the side-effect of whatever he has done to his brain over the years – cocaine mostly – and that made his stage show, Violent Torpedo Of Truth, one of the oddest spectacles I have ever seen.
It is at this stage that the concept of truth enters the discussion: Peirce's strategy for clarifying the concept of reality is, first, to give an account of truth, and, then, to observe that 'the object represented in [a true proposition] is the real'.
