that we will struggle to address if don’t understand fundamental uncertainty.
Also, I was initial confused by your shift from “truth” to “relative truth” and started to wonder if you were going to slip a concept that was not really truth but continue as if you were still talking about truth as I suspect most understand the word. That is, something of an absolute and unrelated to usefulness or practicality. If that was intentional that’s find. If not you might consider a be more of an introduction to that shift as your following text does clarify the difference and why you used the term. Just might be less jarring for other readers—assuming you were not intentionally attempting to “jar” the reader’s mind at that point.
I’m not sure if this will be a good comment but if you’ve never heard of an old counter-culture Christmas time story, The Hog Father, you might find it interesting. In a sense it’s a mirror image of your position. Basically we need to believe little lies in order to believe the big lies (like morality, ethics, truth, right/wrong).
Thanks for your comment. I introduce the relative/absolute split in notions of truth in a previous chapter, so I expect readers of this chapter, as they progress through the book, to understand what it means.
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Also, I was initial confused by your shift from “truth” to “relative truth” and started to wonder if you were going to slip a concept that was not really truth but continue as if you were still talking about truth as I suspect most understand the word. That is, something of an absolute and unrelated to usefulness or practicality. If that was intentional that’s find. If not you might consider a be more of an introduction to that shift as your following text does clarify the difference and why you used the term. Just might be less jarring for other readers—assuming you were not intentionally attempting to “jar” the reader’s mind at that point.
I’m not sure if this will be a good comment but if you’ve never heard of an old counter-culture Christmas time story, The Hog Father, you might find it interesting. In a sense it’s a mirror image of your position. Basically we need to believe little lies in order to believe the big lies (like morality, ethics, truth, right/wrong).
Thanks for your comment. I introduce the relative/absolute split in notions of truth in a previous chapter, so I expect readers of this chapter, as they progress through the book, to understand what it means.