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Sincerity: Sincerity is the quality of being honest and authentic. It is the state of being true to oneself and to others. See also Truth, Truthfulness, Communication, Community, Understanding.
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Bernard Williams on Sincerity - Dictionary of Arguments

Krastev I 175
Sincerty/Bernard Williams/Krastev: Liberals initially believed that they could erode Trump's popularity by unmasking his innumerable lies. But the avalanche of disclosures had no effect.
To understand the willingness of Trump's supporters to accept his lying ways, it will help to draw on the distinction, developed by the British philosopher
Krastev I 176
Bernard Williams, between 'accuracy' and 'sincerity“.(1) People can be truthful about two states of affairs: about what occurs out there in the world and about what they feel inside. Statements about the former are judged by criteria of accuracy or inaccuracy. Statements about the second are judged by criteria of sincerity or insincerity. The former can be fact-checked, the latter cannot. >Fake News/Krastev.
Krastev I 177
Trump/Krastev: While Williams's distinction between accuracy and sincerity helps clarify certain aspects of Trump's popularity, it falls short in important respects. For one thing, it has always seemed that Birtherism was more cynical than sincere. We propose a modified distinction, therefore: not between accuracy and sincerity but between accuracy and loyalty. To paraphrase Arendt, for Trump and his supporters, every statement of fact dissolves into a declaration of membership or allegiance.

1. Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (Princeton University Press, 2010).


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

WilliamsB I
Bernard Williams
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy London 2011

WilliamsM I
Michael Williams
Problems of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology Oxford 2001

WilliamsM II
Michael Williams
"Do We (Epistemologists) Need A Theory of Truth?", Philosophical Topics, 14 (1986) pp. 223-42
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Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994

Krastev I
Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019


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