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Creating Truth is Assertion of Power

Creating Truth is Assertion of Power

by | Apr 19, 2017 | Opinion

For decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth. We’ve deconstructed facts, insisted that knowledge is situated and denied the existence of objectivity. The bedrock claim of critical philosophy, going back to Kant, is...