Litany of Tarski

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The Litany of Tarski is actually a litany template that can be stated about any fact. Here's another example:

If the sky is blue

I desire to believe that the sky is blue

If the sky is not blue

I desire to believe that the sky is not blue.

Blog posts

The Meditation on Curiosity
Why truth? And... — You have an instrumental motive to care about the truth of your beliefs about anything you care about.
Belief in Self-Deception — Deceiving yourself is harder than it seems. What looks like a successively adopted false belief may actually be just a belief in false belief.
The Bottom Line
A Rational Argument
Tarski Statements as Rationalist Exercise by Vladimir Nesov
A Fable of Science and Politics -- characters discover the color of the sky, with political implications.