Nov 27, 2012 10:58 PM
It is too late in the day to follow up on that as fully as the topic deserves. Recall the last (in order of enumeration, not importance) on your list: Truth. A myth or a fable that touches the heart, answers a subjective need, and even produces some (really and truly) good results is still a falsehood. I prefer an agnosticism which admits that it does not know the truth (but perhaps wishes that it did) to a fideism which knows that its object is false, but claims that it is useful.