Juliana Spahrs Response
Juliana Spahr's Response is an assessment of knowledge and the intricacies of truth. While truth and knowledge are simple in concept, Spahr proves the difficulty of really obtaining them. The main problem with truth is how interpretive it has become, so the "truth" is really just a reflection on an individual or group mentality. She refers to the "The claims of truth in the age of cover-up and misinformation"(pg 53). Spahr follows these "claims of truth" from their point of origin in an attempt to display the elusiveness of the real truth. Truth starts with the witness of something, to the responding to that something, and finally to testifying about that something. It is through this chain of truth that Spahr proves how knowledge is really just deciphering what you experience and she conveys the greatness of the responsibility that comes with those interpretations. The first event in a series of truth would be the way people tell you information. The first line of the book is, "How to tell without violating?"(pg 9). This emphasizes the importance of the violation of truth that can occur from hearing things from other people. Human existence is too short to experience everything firsthand, so if one desired to have kno
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Approximate Word count = 1252
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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