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Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Iliad Is Not for the Guide of Our Life

Iliad is just descriptions of tendons being on the strong and you know different places a spear can go to tear different muscles. That's looking inside the human body in a way that you don't do in most other contexts. I think fiction is meant to ship but there it's just true it's not for the guidance of our life it's just because we care about the truth. After that maybe we should live we'll have the final yes if you were saying something earlier this is something potentially linked to what you were saying  if it wasn't truth would be like jumbling cloud with not much identifiable within it.

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