Thursday, June 7, 2018

The search for new truths

I know that I have two hands. With a bit of thought, I now know a number of truths that it seems no ordinary person has ever known before:

  • I have two hands or there is a palomino painted green and pink with someone in a Darth Vader costume on its back.

  • I have two hands or the number of pigs born in 1745 is odd.

  • I have two hands or Sir Patrick Stewart will consume a prime number of calories tomorrow.

  • I have two hands or Donald Trump issued a series of anti-Klingon tweets yesterday.

And so on, ad infinitum. The search for new truths is thus really easy. I just need to search for silly propositions that no one has thought about, and disjoin them with something I know.

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3 comments:

  1. Heath WhiteJune 8, 2018 at 2:55 PM

    Moral: knowledge per se is not valuable.

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  2. Alexander R PrussJune 10, 2018 at 4:08 PM

    I think it is valuable. But in some cases only slightly.

    (I suspect there is nothing that has zero value: I suspect everything either has positive or negative value. But knowledge, as such, does not have negative value.)

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  3. Sean KillackeyJune 13, 2018 at 2:24 AM

    The search for new knowledge is very easy or my cousin is drawing three dibasours eating a salad while at a fancy gala.

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