Full Idea
What we care about is truth in joint-carving terms, not just truth.
Gist of Idea
We don't care about plain truth, but truth in joint-carving terms
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 04.5)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.63
A Reaction
The thought is that it matters what conceptual scheme is used to express the truth (the 'ideology'). Truths can be true but uninformative or unexplanatory.
Related Ideas
Idea 7953 Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints [Plato]
Idea 14988 A theory which doesn't fit nature is unexplanatory, even if it is true [Sider]