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The Problem With Creating Our Own Truth

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We all say we want the truth. But with so much competing information, what happens when we can’t agree on what that the truth is? University of Connecticut philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how people come to believe what they think they know, and why shared foundations of knowledge are crucial to the health of a democracy. His article, published in Boston Review, is “The Value of Truth.”