Void Wrote:Pragmatism is irrelevant towards the truth, finding a belief useful does not necessitate it is true and thus to permit it's validity as a standard of evidence towards justification or knowledge is to permit a great many contradictory beliefs.
Agreed, however: it weighs upon what an individual thinks is true.
Quote:To have an emotional response to a proposition is also useless if you want to know the truth or be justified in believing a proposition to be true, emotional responses permit a great many contradictory conclusions so they are also irrelevant.
Agreed again, however again: emotions weigh heavily upon what an individual thinks is true.
My suggestion that it might not be possible to have a belief uninfluenced by emotion or pragmatism isn't based in what is true, but in the person themself. Forming an understanding of 'the truth' that is devoid of emotion, and which stops short of considering the usefulness/value of the thing: seems either far-fetched or very difficult to achieve. I am not disagreeing that truth sees no relevance in the value of this data or its impact upon one... i am skeptical that we can view 'truth' without attaching value to it or applying our emotional biases into it.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
