(…) an idea whose theoretical untruth or incorrectness, and therewith its falsity, is admitted is not for that reason practically valueless and useless; for such an idea, in spite of its theoretical nullity, may have great practical importance.

Une idée dont on reconnaît la […] fausseté théorique n’est pas pour autant inutile et dénuée de valeur pratique.
✖ Via Hans Vaihinger’s preface for his book The Philosophy of ‘As If’: A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind, trans. by C. K. Ogden, Barnes and Noble, New York, 1968 (First published in England by Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1924, p. viii).

Interesting in regards of the Bouveresse/Debray debate. For an account of the debate, see Thomas Baldwin’s paper : “Jacques Bouveresse: Being UnFrench, Metaphorically” (2007). Full PDF available.

• Jun 19, 2009 link notes tagged: philosophy  fiction  Vaihinger  as if  science  theory 

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