Thanks for the reply. I do see what you mean about special and general truth/knowledge, but I don’t think it addresses the statement I originally made about the usefulness of the “way/system/method” of telling time versus its objective truth. I’m not making a category error, because the context of my example is two humans on planet Earth trying to orient their lives using a made-up convention.
What I was highlighting is that the system of days, hours, minutes, and time zones is an incredibly useful invention despite not reflecting any underlying universal or mind independent truth about reality. The universe contains a rotating planet, but it does not contain “11:35 a.m.” or “Saturday” or time zones.
In that same way, “Monday” is extremely useful for structuring our lives but it has no independent existence outside our collective agreement to treat it as real.
This is the category I’m referring to,
socially constructed systems that help humans organise their experience, even though they do not exist as objective truths about the universe.
So in this sense, Monday is useful but not true.
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