The First Skeptics
We live, we are told, in a “post truth” world, in which eternal verities are said to be irrelevant and reason, superfluous. It is a place where critical thinking is neither valued nor practiced, and the good faith exchange of logical arguments in debate is a thing of the past. How did we get here? By rejecting “absolute truth,” by which facts are distinguishable from falsehoods, fantasies, and errors based on objective, empirical data. The fixed and finite nature of absolute truth is…