the-fact-value-dichotomy-makes-truth-unintelligible

# The fact-value dichotomy makes truth unintelligible If facts are real and values are projections, then truth itself becomes unintelligible, because truth is a normative value: the conviction that it is better to know than not to know. Anyone serious about truth is living by a value their worldview says is not real, and must therefore question the ontology that renders their own seriousness groundless. This is why the dichotomy produces what Desmond calls default atheism: not a conclusion argued for, but a condition imposed by the lens, which removes in advance the possibility of encountering the sacred. The propositional debate between belief and unbelief cannot even be raised while both sides presuppose the split. Related: [[we-objectified-reality-and-subjectivised-value]], [[there-are-three-forms-of-truth]], [[the-enlightenment-flattened-being-knowing-and-intelligibility]], [[care-organizes-facts]]