When studying the recent presidential debate, the question:

What is the philosophy of a ‘fact’ vs a ‘lie’?

Caught on tape = truth?

The camera lies. The camera (even if recording video footage) can either be taken out of context, doesn’t show the full footage, and can be skewed by the media in a “fake-news” angle.

When is one lying?

Another thing:

When someone asks you a direct question, and you either exaggerate it, ignore it, or say something totally contrary, are you ‘lying‘?

The word ‘lie’ comes from the Proto Indo European *lewgh, which means to ‘tell a falsehood’. But what is ‘false’ and what is ‘true’? Certainly from a philosophical perspective, it is all relative. Even statistics and numbers “lie”– every single statistic is a political strategy and ploy.

On being a sucker vs winner?

If you’re a presidential nominee, your goal is to win. To do anything which hurts your chance of winning is bad. So in this sense, even though this is the unsavory truth:

To lie, deceive, exaggerate, ignore … seems like a winning strategy (from a political angle).

ERIC

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POLITICS

1. Who Wins Elections?
2. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
3. How to Effectively Administer Propaganda
4. American is an Attitude
5. The American Race
6. All is Biased.
7. Tolerance vs Acceptance
8. CHROMATISM
9. Morphologyism
10. The American Race
11. Race ain’t Real; Morphology is.