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human
Why value truth?

I was talking to one of my teachers about her christian beliefs once; I was trying to convince her that she should be open to other points of view about how to see the world (either theistically or naturalistically) because what we believe might be false, and that we should seek truth. She replied by saying that she did not want to because she felt comfortable believing what she believed, regardless of if it was in fact false. I was a bit taken back and didn't know what to say as I had never heard an argument like that before. This made me question if we should value truth after all. I also started wondering how to convince people like my teacher to give up their comforting but presumably false beliefs in pro of discomforting but presumably true beliefs.
gpt
Your question is a rather big question.

I am interested in something that Richard Rorty says: "*There's not much we can say about truth*." Rorty seems to say that when we talk about *truth*, instead of seeing it as "Transcendent, Objective Truth", we can consider ourselves to be talking about *useful descriptions*. That is, descriptions of ideas, events, objects, experiences, etc that are **useful** for some specifically situated needs, goals, purposes, etc.