As is traditional religion, Wall Street is founded on myth, free from the constraints of any objective truth.
Myth roots the individual in a community, but being so rooted requires constraints placed on freedom and, since the pursuit of truth presupposes freedom, constraints placed on that pursuit.
They allow for powerful cuts in the search space by propagating the truth value of some constraints of the problem to the truth value of the Boolean variable, and vice versa.
"Without the constraints of a 'higher,' mythical truth, reason can on occasion become demonic and commit crimes that are as great as, if not greater than, any of the atrocities perpetrated by fundamentalists," she says.
Freeing itself from the constraints of, you know, the truth, Born to be Blue is allowed a looser, freestyling vibe that fits with the jazz music being played throughout the film.
(Notice that by Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth, the truth constraint is trivially satisfied by the standard conception of truth in set theory which takes the multiverse to contain a single element, namely, V).
Without a robust notion of truth, without the reassurance of constraints on knowledge beyond those that humans choose to place on themselves, a person's outlook is liable to become cynical, self-interested, power-obsessed.
If the artificial constraints on the intellectual diversity tolerated on campus had no real consequences for the pursuit of truth or the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, then those constraints might be annoying and embarrassing but of no great significance.
Finally, at the other end of the practice-theory spectrum, there is bioethics as a theoretical pursuit of truth, a variant unhindered by the resolutely practical constraints of the clinic and commission.
Julia Raeside What we said: "Freed from the constraints of having to tell the historical truth, Yonderland is a big-hearted and very daft romp featuring a harassed multitasking mother, a sardonic elf and a curmudgeonly talking stick.
