25 January 2009

Who is Masal Bugduv?

There's a funny story over at SLATE about a Moldovan soccer (a/k/a football) player named Masal Bugduv, who has a bright future. Or so a variety of august authorities have said: the Times of London most august among them.

What's so funny about that? There is no such person as Masal Bugduv. And Slate's Brian Phillips turns his non-existence into a wonderful expose of how hoaxes work.

Way to make something out of nothing, Brian!
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Pragmatism Refreshed

Knowledge is warranted belief -- it is the body of belief that we build up because, while living in this world, we've developed good reasons for believing it. What we know, then, is what works -- and it is, necessarily, what has worked for us, each of us individually, as a first approximation. For my other blog, on the struggles for control in the corporate suites, see www.proxypartisans.blogspot.com.