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Two additional concepts I wonder about - time and action. As humans, most of whom are not philosophically minded, we crave certainty to make sense of the world and to provide a foundation for our actions. Remaining uncertain (epistemologically humble) might be the correct philosophical path to ultimate truth. But danger lurks if it prevents us from living our actual lives.

Swift's flying falsehoods are leapt upon because they provide an anchor for our decisions and actions.

Danger also lies when humanity leaps on the wrong flying falsehoods (eugenics as an obvious example). Consequently, how we navigate a world of competing flying falsehoods at a societal level is critically important. But at an individual level, when point in time decisions require a level of (even false) certainty to make (if we are to avoid an inertia filled, un-lived, life), what choice have we?

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