If you don't mind me asking. What would you want the truth to be?
Depends on the day and time. But I have a rather serious problem. My agnosticism (my lack of belief in God or religious notions more generally) is neither apathetic nor restricted to religious/spiritual matters. I am neurotically obsessed with understanding things, determining what is true (and how it is or isn't possible to use which methods to do so in which cases), and in general constantly in pursuit of the unattainable (like Stephen Crane's pursuer of the horizon or Tantulus). I quite literally am too unsure of too many things to know what I would want to be true in most cases. I suppose, though, that I agree here with Hamlet and Camus. Hamlet's soliloquy is well known enough to make quoting it pointless, but Camus is not so familiar:
"Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c'est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d'être vécue, c'est répondre à la question fondamentale de la philosophie. Le reste, si le monde a trois dimensions, si l'esprit a neuf ou douze catégories, vient ensuite."
[There is only the one truly important philosophical problem: there is suicide. To decide that life is worthwhile, or is not worth the trouble of living, is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy. The rest (whether the earth has three dimensions, whether the "mind" has nine or twelve categories) follow after.]
I suppose the thing I want to be true is that the answer to the only
problème philosophique vraiment sérieux is an affirmative one (that the answer is "yes").
