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Reality-Making: The Art of Distinguishing Truth from Falsehood

Understanding the constitution of knowledge (and the new attacks on it)

Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project
14 min readNov 27, 2019

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Why do you believe what you believe?

Over the last months, I’ve become fascinated by (a) how each of us comes to accept something as true and (b) how societies come to some kind of public understanding about truth…

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Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project

Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)