{"id":4471,"date":"2022-11-17T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T19:07:16","slug":"more-philosophical-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2022\/11\/17\/more-philosophical-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"More Philosophical Silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/on-the-advantages-of-believing-that-nothing-is-true?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=b3b98a8b93-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_11_17_11_59&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_411a82e59d-b3b98a8b93-69332437\">On the advantages of believing that nothing is true | Aeon Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The claim that &#8220;nothing is true&#8221; only makes sense if one has a well defined concept of what it means for something to be &#8220;true&#8221;. What makes more sense to me is the claim that no-one has ever given a satisfactory objective definition of that concept; and that when someone says &#8220;p is true&#8221;, what they mean is just that they agree with the propositon &#8220;p&#8221;, and strongly expect other reasonable people to do likewise if presented with the same evidence or argument. The usage &#8220;p is true&#8221; is unfortunate because it hides the subjective nature of the claim, but that doesn&#8217;t make it what I would call &#8220;false&#8221; (if I were going to commit the same misbehaviour).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: On the advantages of believing that nothing is true | Aeon Essays The claim that &#8220;nothing is true&#8221; only makes sense if one has a well defined concept of what it means for something to be &#8220;true&#8221;. What makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2022\/11\/17\/more-philosophical-silliness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}