Comment by KeithS on Purpose and Pragmatism · 2007-12-15T16:30:50.000Z · LW · GW

Truth and usefulness? I don't think that the two can be equated. Sometimes in life a lie is more useful than the truth (a nice tool against self-incrimination), so how could a useful lie be in any way truthful?

Does the lie become a truth at some conceptual level?