from Nada School Saturday Lecture 2014
It’s not worth knowing.
In the definition of decision correctness, knowledge that is not even correct and cannot be applied to 83 real-world problems does not produce anything of value.
84 Talking about “correctness” is philosophy
Wikipedia’s “Truth” has a lot of specifics.
I’ve talked a lot about correctness, which is actually the most abstract discipline of philosophy, and if you look it up on Wikipedia, it’s full of detailed specifics like Popper’s disprovability and the pragmatism of William James, who decides on the basis of value or not… It’s all in there…
85Well, that’s what you can find on Wikipedia, and the value of “knowing” is not limited to Wikipedia or Google searches.
In the days before the birth of this type of service, which was drastically reduced by the
There was value in someone who could quickly bring it up when there was something to talk about, but not anymore. It has been replaced, at least unless you have more knowledge than Wikipedia and can search faster than a Google search. So.
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