RE: Why believe the truth?

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 12:16:13 MDT

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    John K Clark wrote,
    > Why believe the truth? Well, if the questioner thought the truth had no
    > intrinsic value then there would be no reason to think an answer would
    > have any value and thus no reason to ask the question; if he thought the
    > truth did have an intrinsic value then the answer is obvious and there
    > would be no reason to ask the question.
    > So the real mystery is, why ask the question?

    I liked this answer the best! :-)

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