2.+Why+Truth+Matters

//After reading this chapter, answer the following questions.// http://tok-a-journey.wikispaces.com/file/view/Why%20Truth%20MattersCh1.pdf


 * 1. By what means do people create antinomies to truth according to the authors of this reading?**

Truth is ugly - we hate it, we fear it. Truth is beauty, beauty is truth.

Antinomy: 1. A contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules. 2. A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally reasonable and necessary; a paradox.


 * 2. What point are these authors making? Do you agree?**

The central idea, that we need to protect rationality, well-conducted enquiry (research), evidence, inference, warrant, justification, science, and truth; in order to find “truth”, because these are the pursuits of truth.