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by tomatotime 1278 days ago
True statements matter. If it didn't than Boolean statements wouldn't work. Duh!

Also, is research not ultimately meant to be truth seeking? Should we not explore to understand world, for example the laws of physics? Or is that truth not useful and a waste of valuable resources. In that case - you should probably get off the internet since it apparently isn't very valuable to you.

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True as in a Boolean statement is a way of organizing experience rather than direct access to some hidden, metaphysical object. Your brain has to interpret stimuli to tell whether a Boolean statement is true or false - or interpret stimuli from a computer. You can learn something about the necessary conditions of experience by carefully analyzing the process and separating what is subjective from what is objective, but that isn’t accessing “Truth”.

There’s a giant gap between what this article is talking about, which is Truth, than the true statements from discrete mathematics. Discrete math is rooted in necessary conditions of experience; this article’s Truth is rooted in power.