In order for me to survive, I would need to know the truth about a plant that is trying to decieve me. It is whoever has greater access to the truth of their environment who will have greatest survivability.
Those plants who use camoflauge or deception are attempting to hide the truth from predators. I could chamption fallacy as I'd jokingly stated in my last post, but then I wouldn't see through the deceptions all around me. I wouldn't see the truth. Instead I'd only have the false information that predators or prey want me to have.
Truth has everything to do with surviving.
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interbane: It is whoever has greater access to the truth of their environment who will have greatest survivability.
IF it were simply a matter of accessing truth...but it is also a matter of presentation, display and performance- where the priority is not always, or even mostly, a matter of truthfullness...but really trickery, seduction, manipulation and lies. Now, irony of ironies, perhaps truth is essential in deciding the appropriate deception: or, really, truth is necessary when deceiving.
interbane: Truth has everything to do with surviving.
True, until it's necessary to lie.
IF it were simply a matter of accessing truth...but it is also a matter of presentation, display and performance- where the priority is not always, or even mostly, a matter of truthfullness...but really trickery, seduction, manipulation and lies. Now, irony of ironies, perhaps truth is essential in deciding the appropriate deception: or, really, truth is necessary when deceiving.
interbane: Truth has everything to do with surviving.
True, until it's necessary to lie.
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Seeking the truth and displaying deception are two completely different things. The opposite of both are also different, seeking fallacy or displaying the real you.
Truth is my priority, displaying the truth is completely different and is not my priority. When I say that, I don't mean I could care less whether or not I lie or decieve. It is a completely different aspect of nature, and is not my number one priority(for survival reasons as you've said).
If I lie about something, with respect to my beliefs, truth is still completely intact as a belief mechanism, since I know the truth even though I'm not presenting it. Truth with respect to knowledge / perception / belief.
We seem to have two different definitions or contexts of truth.
Truth is my priority, displaying the truth is completely different and is not my priority. When I say that, I don't mean I could care less whether or not I lie or decieve. It is a completely different aspect of nature, and is not my number one priority(for survival reasons as you've said).
If I lie about something, with respect to my beliefs, truth is still completely intact as a belief mechanism, since I know the truth even though I'm not presenting it. Truth with respect to knowledge / perception / belief.
We seem to have two different definitions or contexts of truth.
