arguments about needing to consider what’s useful, not just what’s true.
Absent examples it’s not clear how these trade off against each other. It seems like what’s useful is a subset of what’s true—offhandedly, I don’t know what color of flames are produced if cesium is burned (or what cesium is, if it burns, if the fumes would be harmful, etc.), but if I thought that might be useful knowledge in the future I’d seek it out.
Absent examples it’s not clear how these trade off against each other. It seems like what’s useful is a subset of what’s true—offhandedly, I don’t know what color of flames are produced if cesium is burned (or what cesium is, if it burns, if the fumes would be harmful, etc.), but if I thought that might be useful knowledge in the future I’d seek it out.