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Comment by mapontosevenths

4 days ago

> If you think people can't arrive to a tangible and useful approximation of truth, then you are simply delusional

Logic is only a map, not the territory. It is a new toy, still bright and shining from the box in terms of human history. Before logic there were other ways of thinking, and new ones will come after. Yet, Voltaire's bastards are always certain they're right, despite being right far less often than they believe.

Can people arrive at tangible and useful conclusions? Certainly, but they can only ever find capital "T" Truth in a very limited sense. Logic, like many other models of the universe, is only useful until you change your frame of reference or the scale at which you think. Then those laws suddenly become only approximations, or even irrelevant.

There is no (T)ruth, but there is a useful approximation of truth for 99.9% things that I want to do in life.

YMMV.