http://glennbeckreport.com Deconstructing Glenn Beck Lies Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://glennbeckreport.com/the-9-principles-deconstructed/principle-3/comment-page-1/#comment-23 SwampOgre Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:30:35 +0000 http://glennbeckreport.com/?page_id=114#comment-23 3. Trying to be more honest means actually doing it, not just becoming an ever more skillful bullshitter and self-deluded psycho. This might be a place to plug a recent book by a philosophy prof. I think he used that vulgar term in the title to describe a new truth-functional status. In elementary logic, a statement can be true or false. A statement could be false because of an honest mistake, or because of a lie in which the statement is made with the awareness that it's a lie. A third status is that a statement is made not because it's true or because it's a deliberate lie, but because the speaker/writer doesn't CARE whether it's true or false, and only cares whether it is PERSUASIVE. The good prof used the term bullshit to describe this logical status. It's very common in politics and unfortunately also common in the commentary sold as news. Factual commentary good, lies and BS bad. Beck is such a dodger and weaver concerning the facts he doesn't want to admit, and his frame of reference is very often false. 3. Trying to be more honest means actually doing it, not just becoming an ever more skillful bullshitter and self-deluded psycho. This might be a place to plug a recent book by a philosophy prof. I think he used that vulgar term in the title to describe a new truth-functional status. In elementary logic, a statement can be true or false. A statement could be false because of an honest mistake, or because of a lie in which the statement is made with the awareness that it’s a lie. A third status is that a statement is made not because it’s true or because it’s a deliberate lie, but because the speaker/writer doesn’t CARE whether it’s true or false, and only cares whether it is PERSUASIVE. The good prof used the term bullshit to describe this logical status. It’s very common in politics and unfortunately also common in the commentary sold as news. Factual commentary good, lies and BS bad. Beck is such a dodger and weaver concerning the facts he doesn’t want to admit, and his frame of reference is very often false.

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