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 {{Quote|“People of every age seem to be in a sort of post-truth scenario here, where I get to pick my own facts. There are a lot of facts out of there, I get to pick the ones that I like, and I can go with those, and nobody can really tell me that those aren’t the facts because it’s my truth. Those are my facts, and don’t tell me they’re not.”
-:— Robert Prentice<ref>[https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Directory/Profiles/Prentice-Robert Robert Prentice], quoted in {{author|Gabrielle Bluestone}}’s {{br|Hype}}</ref>}}{{Quote|
+:— Robert Prentice<ref>[https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Directory/Profiles/Prentice-Robert Robert Prentice], quoted in {{author|Gabrielle Bluestone}}’s {{br|Hype}}</ref>}}{{quote|
+The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings do that.
+:—Richard Rorty<ref>{{plainlink|https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n07/richard-rorty/the-contingency-of-language|“The Contingency of Language”}}, ''London Review of Books'', 17 April 1986</ref>}}{{Quote|
 All the lies I told to you: <br>
 Some of them came true.