Humbug. What you are actually saying is that wanting to know can be a terminal value, so why won’t you just say that?
And of course, I know that, but there is just too much stuff out there to learn, so it’s a necessity that the things you do choose to learn are in some sense better than the rest (otherwise you lose something), more beautiful or more useful. Just saying that one would learn X because “learning in general” is fun isn’t enough.
Yeah, but then why privilege “I need calculus for my job” over “I want to know, I want to know, though the Earth burns and the stars are torn apart for computronium, I WILL UNDERSTAND”?
Yes, it’s a mind projection fallacy. Reality doesn’t need anything from us; there is no needfulness apart from what people want to do.
Humbug. What you are actually saying is that wanting to know can be a terminal value, so why won’t you just say that?
And of course, I know that, but there is just too much stuff out there to learn, so it’s a necessity that the things you do choose to learn are in some sense better than the rest (otherwise you lose something), more beautiful or more useful. Just saying that one would learn X because “learning in general” is fun isn’t enough.
I didn’t read Vladimir as supposing that there was any other kind.
Yeah, but then why privilege “I need calculus for my job” over “I want to know, I want to know, though the Earth burns and the stars are torn apart for computronium, I WILL UNDERSTAND”?