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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Beyond Good and Evil' and 'Truth-maker Realism: response to Gregory'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 2. Pragmatic justification

20140	We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: The falseness of a judgement is to us not necessarily an objection to a judgement. To what extent is it life-advancing, life-preserving, species-preserving. Our fundamental tendency is to assert that our falsest judgements are the most indispensable.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §004)
	A reaction: This is the standard objection to pragmatism, that what is false may still be useful, and that clever blighter Nietzsche embraces the idea!

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

2877	Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: The real problems of morality come into view only if we compare many moralities.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], §186)