Stronger statement: under certain conditions of limited knowledge, the only way to certain truths might lie through available lies.
You may be able to discard the false path later, but you can’t get there the first time entirely through truths.
Lies can help bootstrap truths.
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Being wrong about some things can help you be right about other things.
Helps to be be laissez-faire about the truth economy in your head if you want to be efficient about increasing the net truthfulness of your reality. To be OCD about small truths is to fall prey to big lies.
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