A Defence of Free Speech

In Cedric Hung-Chao Pan & Jaganathan Muraleenathan (eds.), Thinking about Democracy. pp. 61-84 (1989)
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The paper gives a spirited defence of freedom of speech as the best means for attaining truth in a society and argues that the remedy for bad or false speech is not to curtail free speech but more free speech.

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