It appears you are refusing to compromise on your core value of having no core values.
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when I say my core value is for truth I mean I shape my behavior to incorporate methods that can eliminate delusive beliefs and confirm true beliefs.
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What if some "delusive beliefs" are good?
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define good? see, this rhetorical strategy is easy to do.
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One possible reading: what if holding delusive beliefs allows you to better satisfy your core values as expressed in action?
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is satisfaction of your core values what we care about? I mentioned context-limited utility as a value because it focuses on solving real problems instead of just attaining a kind of spiritual satisfaction (whatever that might mean).
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Yes, I was defining "good" as "whatever satisfies one's core values." However, what if we only solve real problems for the spiritual satisfaction (or escape from boredom, I guess), and it's simply *extra* spiritually satisfying if the problems are real?
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when I'm hungry my problem is I need to eat nourishing food. if I don't eat nourishing food I will become sick and eventually die. it doesn't matter how spiritually satisfying I find eating to be. case in point: anorexics are spiritually repulsed by eating but they still have to.
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This presumes anorexics value living over not eating. Not all have!
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How is a "relevant problem" determined? The effectiveness of "empiricism the method" is buttressed by "empiricism the belief". Calling empiricism purely a method with no required underlying axiomatic set is a common bait-and-switch.
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relevance is a preference judgment, though some preferences become outright needs if survival/subsistence is on the line. empiricism "the belief" is too boring to be worth discussing. yes, I really do believe that senses and instruments can verify reality. I am not a solipsist.
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Interestingly, the idea that peoples' preference judgments are worth listening to is a somewhat non-standard idea these days. The reason to question "empiricism the belief" is not so much "maybe science is fake" so much as "when/for whom might empirical truth be bad?"
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But if "truth" is only a moral/personal and not an ethical/society-wide value, then it is indeed boring to question the use and validity of empirical truth.
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I disagree. moral and personal judgments are more salient and more relevant to individuals than ethical and social judgments. in order to have an ethical society we must also have moral individuals.
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This claim reads like a more deeply-held "core value" to me than the ones you listed above.
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it's just a rephrasing.
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I do not see how "moral & personal judgments are more relevant to individuals than ethical & social judgments" is necessarily a rephrasing of "truth and utility".
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