Truth
We all need to pursue truth for truth's sake. Without this pursuit, every conclusion we reach and every decision we make will be the result of an entirely subjective process. Before we continue, let's make something clear; I have no problems borrowing someone else's verbage if they've thought it out and articulated it well. I know for sure that I''ll be drawing on G.K. Chesterton. I'm pretty sure that I'll have borrowed various turns of phrase from others before I'm done.. But it starts with GKC's essay titled 'the maniac'. It's been suggested that insanity can be defined by doing the same thing(s) over and over and expecting a different result. GKC defines it from a reasoning viewpoint in a similar way: insanity/madness consists over drawing the same conclusion over and over as a result of processing a limited universe of facts. I'd expand on that and suggest that it's also the presence of 'factoids' that result in ...