On 10/1/2024 2:39 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
Regarding the analogy with the old gods, the goal of any theory should
be the truth. Theories are a side effect of the goal of finding the
truth. Truth is what decides what a theory looks like, not the other
way around. As such, words such as "throwback" is a
mischaracterization of what a theory is doing. If the truth reveals to
us that reality is indeed a network of interacting consciousnesses,
This nonsense that comes from reifying "the truth". There are true
statements, but there is no whole "the truth" on pain of realizing
Russell's paradox.
and that this truth strips us of our powers to make predictions,
Whether any theory is true is determined by testing its consequences
empirically.
this is not a "throwback", this is simply the truth. Truth is not
throwback or throwforwards. Truth is simply truth.
Which is just scholastic BS.
It is what it is. Nobody says that truth should be about making
predictions.
Then Nobody, whoever that is, doesn't know what they're talking about.
True premises entail true logical predictions.
Brent
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