And this balance. 'Objective knowledge impossible but aim productive' which makes truth a matter of pragmatism & very much secondary. Vs https://twitter.com/ulyssesnewcomb/status/923715551796502529 …
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People who make the aim for objective truth primary but acknowledge that we cannot be absolutely sure of it. Difference in foregrounding.
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I wonder how much of this comes down to personality type. Ppl who are fulfilled by knowing things & ppl who love messiness & unknowability.
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I think there are many propositions we can know with near-certainty, while others will remain permanently mysterious. And in-between too.
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Physics example: i) objects fall down, not up, if dropped ii) general relativity makes accurate predictions iii) spacetime really exists
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i) is basically certain and known from life experience, not usually articulated or made explicit. ii) is concrete formal knowledge-science
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iii) is speculative metaphysics and (depending on your views) arguably meaningless
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But these categories you have put them in are based on assumptions of thinking grounded in western culture & are therefore arbitrary.
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