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Topic: Arts & Humanities

Definition: Beliefs about art, history, literature and philosophy.

📁 Sub-topics

Topic	Beliefs beneath	What it covers
History	2	History covers how the past is studied, written, taught and remembered in public, including monuments, textbooks and popular retellings.
Literature	2	Literature covers what people read, how books are judged and taught, and what fiction and poetry are for.
Philosophy	2	Philosophy covers the big questions about knowledge, right and wrong, meaning and the mind, and the question of whether thinking about them carefully is worth doing.
Photography	2	Photography covers how pictures are made with a camera, how they are edited and shown, and how they should be judged as art or as records.

📋 Beliefs filed beneath this topic

Under	Belief	Truth	Belief score
History	Statues honoring historical figures who did serious wrongs should generally be removed from public squares.	0.50	+0.00
History	Historians generally should not judge people of the past by today's moral standards.	0.50	+0.00
Photography	Heavy digital editing generally does not make a photograph any less of a photograph.	0.50	+0.00
Photography	A photograph's worth clearly rests more on what it truthfully shows than on the photographer's artistry.	0.50	+0.00
Literature	Schools should generally require students to read the classic works of literature rather than let them choose their own books.	0.50	+0.00
Literature	Popular genre fiction such as romance, crime and fantasy generally deserves the same critical respect as literary fiction.	0.50	+0.00
Philosophy	Philosophy should generally be taught in high school alongside math and science.	0.50	+0.00
Philosophy	Philosophy generally makes no real progress on its big questions.	0.50	+0.00

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