On the Difference Between True and False Cognition From the Perspective of Needs
People's different needs play different motivational roles in their process of forming correct and false knowledge.First of all,because the desire for knowledge aims to make up for the ignorance,its essential function is to tend to truth and avoid fallacies,so it will not produce false knowledge by its normal performance.Secondly,the essential function of the desire for clarity lies in the pursuit of clarity of knowledge,and thus plays a neutral role in the distinction between correct and false knowledge by helping both of them achieve logical self-consistency.Finally,after participating in the cognitive process,non-cognitive needs may promote the normal performance of the desire for knowledge to tend to truth on the one hand,and hinder its normal performance and lead to fallacy on the other hand,so that we should analyze their roles in detail.
desire for knowledgedesire for claritynon-cognitive needscorrect knowledgefalse knowledge
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