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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! |