Sisyphus wrote:
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> "Natural selection does not care whether a brain has or tends towards
> true beliefs, so long as the organism reliably exhibits reproductively
> advantageous behavior.........The notion of truth is suspect on purely
> metaphysical grounds, anyway. It suggests straightaway the notion of
> The Complete and Final True Theory: at a minimum, the infinite set of
> all true sentences...But *nothing* whatever guurantees the existence
> of such a unique theory......" [Paul Churchland]
Which is why it is sad that red-baiting succeeded in making a mockery of the adjective "correct." It was a way of debating the acceptability of a proposition without falling into the metaphysics of Truth.
Carrol