??? Consider the bible. Consider news stories. Consider propaganda stories and inspirational narratives. If they make us feel good or seem to have a profound meaning but are not established to be true factual accounts, we must say this.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @darrylrichard23
What would you say to what I have seen? That if people follow behaviors seen in hero myths, there is a positive correlation with wellbeing. What do we call these observations, it seems the word truth applies but in a different way then in speaking to facts.
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Replying to @VirgilMSW @darrylrichard23
You can say that people can experience positive benefits from following narratives which are not true. If evidenced, it is true that this happens. The narrative remains untrue. Perhaps someone is inspired by the bravery and honest of Harry Potter?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @darrylrichard23
That makes sense, it seems honestly that we are missing a word for pragmatic truths foundbin narratives. Or maybe I am just unaware of how to articulate this idea. Thanks for the responses making me think a lot.
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Replying to @VirgilMSW @darrylrichard23
We call it pragmatic notions of truth!
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Replying to @HPluckrose @darrylrichard23
That phrase may have been what I was looking for. I have seen so many of these conversations be derailed because people can't get past agreeing on word use.
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Replying to @VirgilMSW @darrylrichard23
It's the concepts which need to be kept separate. What is evidenced and what is emotionally/morally resonant. The whole post-truth problem is about confusing these.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @darrylrichard23
I think I am following, it seems I the whole Harris Peterson debate got stuck because they wanted to use the same word to mean two different things.
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Replying to @VirgilMSW @darrylrichard23
Not really. They established they were using truth differently early on and tried to find common ground on the concepts. Still, no. Peterson favours pragmatics over facts. So do others but they do them differently to support different ends. Feminism is a main culprit.
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My epistemology is based on what is established as true through evidence. We worked on meaningful narratives that bonded people for most of history. It didn't work well.
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I still like narratives. I'm a literature student not a scientist for that reason but this doesn't make the ones which are helpful to me true. It's important to recognise that.
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