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Useful Not True
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How can I apply this idea: Sivers defines 'true' so narrowly, absolute, objective, agreed by any observer, everywhere and always, that almost nothing anyone says can clear the bar, and 'not true' never means false, only that another perspective is possible?
How can I apply this idea: A fable about a guard who only lets travelers cross once they state the bare, literal fact rather than their interpretation of it, used to argue that rules, duties, and cultural norms are all negotiable interpretations wearing the costume of fact?
How can I apply this idea: Split-brain patients confidently invent false reasons for their own actions, students misremember their own vivid memories with total confidence, and even science is explicitly not 'true' but a process of getting less wrong, so confidence itself is not evidence?
