The Kochs are evil and all that, but you’ve got to give it to them: they’re effective. There’s a thing that Charles Koch says to his subordinates that I keep thinking about — “True knowledge should lead to effective action”.
So if it doesn’t lead to effective action, is it true?
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I disagree with that statement given that knowledge has to be relevant to a person's interests / motivations. True statements about chemical processes are not meaningful to a non scientist.
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Read it in the context of the pragmatic theory of truth!
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I think we can “safely ignore” a lot of information that we can’t apply. But also there are ideas that may not be true “there is a universal power looking out for you” which may still be useful
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