[lit-ideas] Re: Believing What One Knows To Be False

In a message dated 9/18/2010 1:17:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Nevertheless, Kant warns us that we
have to remember, regardless of  their usefulness, they remain
falsehoods. ...
Nietzsche is merely  raising the question how the pursuit of Truth can
maintain its lofty status  given that important parts of our lives
revolve around necessary  falsehoods.  
 
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Thanks. I guess I was taking an analytic account of 'falsehood', as in 'it  
is false that p'. But I see your point now about the "I", etc., being a  
'falsehood'. In any case, my header was prompted by this query elsewhere, in  
CHORA-L, I think; hence the profusion of Nietzschean quotes. Oddly, I've 
been  reading some Nietzsche of late, vis a vis his polemic with Wagner, and 
notably  his wife, Cosima (Wagner's wife, not Nietzsche). Interesting trio, 
that  one.

Cheers,
 
JL

 
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