630
Complexity and Truth

Abstract Submissions Closed

Saturday, 27 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:

RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)

Language: English

Session Type: Oral


A complex society does not accommodate one truth for everybody. Different functional systems, different organizations, and different individuals perceive different things to be true. Truth is not regarded – or at least not during the last few centuries – to be an absolute, but rather a socially produced construct. This perception is increasing the complexity of society – another person really is “other” if even her or his concept of truth is a different one. As a result of the multiplicity of truth, there are constant negotiations and power struggles over how one specific truth can become binding for several people or even one (national, global?) society. The social production of truth takes place within complex social situations characterized by bargaining, fighting, forging of alliances, etc.
Session Organizer:
Philipp ALTMANN, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador, philippaltmann@gmx.de
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