We really need to stop using the words "post-factual" & "post-truth". They imply that life was once factual, when actually human beings have always prioritized utility over truth. The only reason our age seems so dishonest is that we've become much better at recognizing bullshit.
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It doesn't matter. Whether a proposition is more useful to survival/procreation also suffers from this problem and requires approximation.
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We're simply always seeking truth in the exact same way. Pragmatism just changes the proposition being approximated. It's fallacious.
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