The best test of the truth is its ability to prevail in a loud, vigorous, and sustained debate.
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The best test of the truth is whether practical actions based on an understanding of that truth are systematically more successful: for example, battles.
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J.S. Mill ("[T]he clearer perception and livelier impression of truth [is] produced by its collision with error") vs. Nietzsche ("[Some truths] must be believed to be true, for the sake of the preservation of creatures like ourselves")
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J. S. Mill was wrong.
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General statement that applies more broadly than that one quote
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I agree with this, and that determining truth from multiple irrefutable options must rest on pragmatics or beauty. But I do think we'd benefit from an intellectual milieu where learned experts were given an interest and venue for stating the opposing case to the academy's dogmas.
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Sure, good idea in theory but the same forces that drive the academy to accepting a dogma and suppressing all dissent will drive them to infiltrate and assimilate the alternative milieu. If you can solve that you can solve the original problem - belling the cat
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