Re: ExI = Truth First ?

Ian Goddard (igoddard@netkonnect.net)
Fri, 15 May 1998 17:53:01 -0400


I wrote:

>In the Extropian society, is the core principle:
>
>"We acknowledge only those truths that are useful."
>
>Such seems to be the consensus, stated in so many
>words, of some of the members of this list. If so,
>then truth is a subset of the set of "utility" (U),

More accurately, SOME truths may be members of U,
or it could be that NO truths are members of U,
because that principle is "utility first," or

> ...x is a member of U if and only if x is useful.

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