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The Constitution of Knowledge — How Truth Is Built (Audio)


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Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.

This episode explores The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch as a systems-level analysis of how societies validate claims into shared knowledge through norms of open inquiry and decentralized error-correction.


By focusing on patterns rather than individuals, the episode shows why truth can be destabilized when verification is overwhelmed by chaos or constrained by coercion.


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