[Morality Games]

My observation is that the term 'truth' and the phrases synonymous with it are typically employed when people experience a feeling of certainty that an idea of theirs corresponds to the state of things. Since few of the ideas expressed by people throughout time have stacked evenly alongside reality after retrospective analysis, it becomes fair to question if settled truths are possible, or, given how well human beings have made by with makeshift truths, if such a truth-type is even necessary for living a quality existence.

I am prepared to contend, however, that some degree of correspondence between an idea and reality is possible, and that such a relation can be put to work for the benefit of conscious beings. Since correspondence, for the sake of better satisfying the wants which emerge from the constitution of a being's nature, is the aim, experience-focused reasoning operating under high standards of verification should become the most often used mode of thought amongst conscious beings, especially in our political and personal relationships. This is because, while an idea inconsistent with reality may satisfy wants on a day to day basis, a whole lifetime, or even for generations afterward, the potentiality that serious harm could, at any moment, arise from it is much larger than with ideas which still appear consistent with reality after undergoing rigorous analysis.

So, the tentativeness of science could be thought of as a type of caution against the dangers intrinistic to dogmatism.