''¿Es posible conocer la verdad, Irene? No. !Nunca vamos a llegar a alcanzarla! La verdad no existe. Todo es un juego, Irene, entiéndelo. Y no se juega para obtener la verdad, sino para ganar...''
Jorge Volpi. En busca de Klingsor (327-328). Seix Barral.
What a statement about the ontology of true. Indeed, this vision is compatible with evolutionary approaches to knowledge [1]. It may not be a true statement, but it could help us win some games...
[1] As a matter of fact, evolutionary approaches to knowledge such as Donald T. Campbell's Evolutionary Epistemology (a bright extension of Popper's falsifiability) don't bring about such a positivistic vision as the cited statement. Campbell's epistemology (an epistemology of epistemology) is designed as a tool to address problems in social research methodology. This game theoretical approach may well constitute a complementary analytical extension for Evolutionary Epistemology.
Watercolor by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from rossetiarchive.org
