# The term ' Post Truth ' with one example.
' Post Truth '
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We all know that The term Post Truth is the international word of the year 2016. So, as the assignment task ,and click here for further reading of Post Truth on Dr. Dilil Barad sir's blogspot I wolike to write my blog on the term ' Post Truth ' with one example. I hope you will enjoy. My blog is below.
• The meaning of the term ' Post Truth ' :-
According to Cambridge Dictionary Post Truth means, " Relating to a situation in which people are more likely to accept an argument based on their emotions and beliefs, rather than one based on facts. "
~ In the other way we can says that , " Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal beliefs.
- Oxford Dictionary
Here I would like to put the table of the years and name of person, who used the 'Post Truth' word in different years:
In 2016 Oxford Dictionaries declared that its international words of the year was, 'Post Truth' citing a 2,000 % increase in usage compared to 2015.
Post-Truth is said to have influence in past scenario, which it looses subsequently. It can be presented either in positive or negative scenario as per the time's demand, likewise It keeps on modifying in various designed frames.
Accordingly we can classify it into various categories:
-Politically said Post-Truth, can be considered as "manipulative, modified, hypocratic, truth".
-Socially told can be chiefly called blatant lies, as suggested by "Kathleen Higgins" and in simplified manner, It can be called "Fabricated truth" or "man/woman made truth", However women are very much advanced in this pace.
Post-truth is a philosophical and political concept that refers to "the disappearance of shared objective standards for truth" And the "circuitous slippage between facts or alt facts, knowledge, opinion, belief, and truth", post-truth discourse is often contrasted with the forms taken by scientific methods and inquiry. The term garnered widespread popularity, in the form of " Post-truth politics ", in the period around the 2016 U. S. Presidential election and the U. k. Brexit referendum.
• While the term post-truth is relatively recent, the concept can be traced back to earlier moral, epistemic, and political debates about relativism, postmodernity, and mendacity in politics, including nontruthfulness, lies, deception, and celebrate falsehood.
• we can also show this video for batter understanding of Post Truth.
- Examples :
The Guardian Australia's Katharine Murphy put it this way : "We've been drifting,in increments, in the direction of post-truth, but the election of Trump is a headfirst pitch over the cliff."
We are witnessing the results of a widespread trend, summed up by the epithet "post-truth politics", that can be understood through studies of disinformation in Putin's Russia.
The election of an American president who routinely lies and the success of Brexit after a campaign full of falsehoods suggest we're in a post-Truth world, writes Roy Greenslade for The Guardian.
- Post-Truth and Philosophy :
There is a term used in proposition logic called "truth value". I think this is term is important because it points to the root of what's wrong today in our discourse, whether it's a "debate" among pundits on cable show, arguments with relatives. When we have an opinion about a particular topic, we try to being correct . Without verifying those facts underpinning our viewpoint, one can find themselves defenseless position. Click here to learn more about post-truth and philosophy.
Everyone has different perspective to judge same things it is their opinion not fact. we have see the above image about opinion not a fact.
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