I don't quite agree with this. People have always been, and can only be, interested in factual truth imo. Utility is still factual truth.
But our minds are not inherently aware that P is useful, so we can't count it as an epistemological statement.
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Religious tribes of the past did not think to themselves, "Hmm, what I believe is not true, but it is useful". They actually believed what they believed.
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I'm not saying people never truly believe in God. But when they do, they believe it in the same way you believe any other proposition.
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I'm very skeptical of that claim.
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