Why I resist the "post-truth/alternative facts" narrative
Since the middle of the last decade, I've heard repeatedly that we live in a "post-truth" era. That was best exemplified by Kellyanne Conway's usage of the term "alternative facts" back in 2017 in response to the kerfuffle over the crowd size for Trump's inauguration in late January of that year. So, this is the so-called post-truth era. Admittedly it has been a long while since I was taking philosophy classes as an undergraduate student, but terms like relativism (sometimes used interchangeably with perspectivism and perspectivalism) have some value. The basic gist is that each of us will have a somewhat different experience of the same phenomenon. Note what isn't in dispute: that there is some phenomenon that has occurred and that each of us had an experience of it. The facts on the ground are what they are, but what each of us might make of the facts may vary - sometimes in ways that can be constructive, and sometimes in ways that are not. As long...