{"id":3971,"date":"2019-02-05T12:07:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/truth-and-consolation\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T12:07:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:07:54","slug":"truth-and-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/truth-and-consolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth and Consolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Nothing is true <em>because<\/em> it is consoling, but that does not preclude certain truths from being consoling.&#0160; So one cannot refute a position by showing that some derive consolation from it.&#0160; Equally, no support for a position is forthcoming from the fact that it thwarts our interests or dashes our hopes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is true because it is consoling, but that does not preclude certain truths from being consoling.&#0160; So one cannot refute a position by showing that some derive consolation from it.&#0160; Equally, no support for a position is forthcoming from the fact that it thwarts our interests or dashes our hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}