But the proper standard is not truth, it's truthiness.
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The "truthiness" of the matter is that organisers of both events could learn from each other.
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But as the world gets more complex and noisy, truth can easily become confused with "truthiness".
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Truth doesn't seem matter so much as truthiness -the quality of something seeming to be true even if it's false.
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According to the ultimate source of truthiness (wikipedia), the photon is the elementary particle responsible for the electromagnetic interaction.
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It is four years since US political humorist Stephen Colbert started talking about "truthiness" and "wikiality", as in a dependence on Wikipedia for fact-checking.
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US satirist Stephen Colbert invented "truthiness" -a political discourse in which what matters is what you feel to be true, regardless of any evidence.
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Truthiness: People have certainly talked about that Etch-a-Sketch quote quite a bit.
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Truthiness: The great thing about speculation is that it cannot be fact-checked.
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Truthiness: Romney often appears to be drawn in a monotone pallet.
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Truthiness: The picture of Putin with his shirt off is 100% real.
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Truthiness: Rick Perry is, in fact, a clueless hayseed reactionary.
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Truthiness, on the other hand, might be.
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Truthiness: They got 'em on this one.
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But the proper standard is not truth, it's truthiness.
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The "truthiness" of the matter is that organisers of both events could learn from each other.