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 :— Robert Prentice,<ref>https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Directory/Profiles/Prentice-Robert</ref> quoted in {{author|Gabrielle Bluestone}}’s {{br|Hype}}}}
-Most conspiracy theories contain a grain of [[truth]]. Some are completely true. There has to be ''something'' for the credulous people to glom onto.
+Most conspiracy theories contain a grain of [[truth]]. Some are completely true. There has to be ''something'' for the credulous to glom onto.
-[[Critical theory]]’s grain of truth, ironically, is that ''there is no such thing as a grain of truth''.
+[[Critical theory]]’s grain of truth, ironically, is “''there is no such thing as a grain of truth''”.
 Well, not ''quite'' — “it is true that there is no truth”  refutes itself, after all — but rather that the idea of “[[objective truth]]” is ''incoherent''.  There is no [[objective truth]], ''because the idea of “objective truth” doesn’t make sense''. Truths are ''propositions'' about ''things''. Propositions put things into a relationship with each other: “the cat sat on the mat”. “Propositions” are a property of language: they only exist within the framework of a language. “Things” are not — things (we presume) have continuity whether we see them or not, and whether we talk about them or not.<ref>[[David Hume]]’s causal scepticism put paid, centuries ago, to the idea that we can be sure about this.</ref> Things are properties of the universe.