If by that, you mean accept that knowledge is always provisional and we cannot be absolutely certain of knowing anything but choosing to continue aiming for objective knowledge anyway and in the process developing medicines, technology & learning things about our world, yes.
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But as usual, we have switched from 'Peterson doesn't deny the objectivity of truth in the same way as postmodernists' to 'Peterson is right to deny the objectivity of truth in the same way as postmodernists because discourses, myths, feelings, lived experience really are truth'.
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Usefulness and true are independent variables. It’s an odd conflation to merge their definitions. Survival and behavior can be done with no understanding of truth.
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Except that the principles that lead to the Earth revolving around the sun are the same-or-related-to the principles that would lead to a perfect government or rewiring our brains.
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