truth is neither good nor bad
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Replying to @gremlinboots @likeplastic_
You don’t have to. Rationality itself is a tool, not a norm. It is fully if-then. You can construct yourself a rationalist norm (truth is preferable to untruth) or an antirationalist one (some truths are bad and must be suppressed), but that requires additional assumptions.
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Replying to @gremlinboots @likeplastic_
Yes, perceptual truth is merely a measure of a degree of coherence to other beliefs. Almost-truth can lead you arbitrarily astray.
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Replying to @gremlinboots @likeplastic_
Astray in the sense that you feel compelled to perceive untrue things as true.
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Replying to @gremlinboots @likeplastic_
Yes, which is only true if you add additional premises that imply that truth is better (for instance, you may want to have the best possible regulation and need to show that your model has a chance of being isomorphic to a ground truth, or you prefer truth for aesthetic reasons).
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To state that going astray from truth (i.e. accepting false statements as true) is bad rather than merely factually descriptive requires additional preferences. I don't think that is inconsistent.
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