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> What is the utility of truth? I don't understand the question. Truth is the correspondence of the mind with the real. The value of some truths is mostly inst

> What is the utility of truth? I don't understand the question. Truth is the correspondence of the mind with the real. The value of some truths is mostly instrumental. The value of others is that it is good for us to know them for themselves. If you are using "utility" to mean "value", then maybe you accept this, but utility is typically something like a species of value, as I understand it. Pure practicality is incoherent. They needs to be a terminus. What is "need" here? Toward what end? Need is always about ends. > Reflexivity is precisely where meaning/religion comes from. From the self. Meaning doesn't come from ourselves. We cannot invent meaning. Either something means something, or it doesn't. What you describe is mental illness and delusion. I also don't see what this has to do with truth/utility.

ukj 5y ago
> I don't understand the question. Truth is the correspondence of the mind with the real. That is only the correspondence theory of truth. There are many other truth-theories. There is the coherence theory, pragmatic theory, constructivist theory, consensus theory. Why have you chosen that particular truth-theory? I use utility in the same sense of “teleos” - end purpose. What is the purpose of truth? What is the purpose of having a mind correspond with the real? For your particular conception - it is impossible for any mind to correspond to the real because any given mind is only a subset of the real.
ukj 5y ago
> Either something means something, or it doesn't. This is a peculiar idea. What does my cat mean?