Great! Can’t have myths about random fruit in this otherwise totally valid, reasonable and trustworthy story about a woman that was made from a man’s rib and talked to reptiles.
Great! Can’t have myths about random fruit in this otherwise totally valid, reasonable and trustworthy story about a woman that was made from a man’s rib and talked to reptiles.
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
If a narrative is not literally true, does that mean it has no value?
Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
What is “truth value” supposed to mean?
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Sorry, I wasn’t explaining myself well.
Just because a story isn’t factually true, doesn’t mean that it has no value, or negative value. There are other types of values which can supersede factual value:
Truth isn’t always about facts. Sometimes factual statements can be used as a weapon of deceit.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
There are other types of value, of course. It’s just funny to specifically call the apple out for being a myth. The entire story is a myth, so they could have made it a pomelo for all I care.