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 I do see what you mean about special and general truth/knowledge, but I don’t think it addresses the statement I originally made about the usefulness of the “way/system/method” of telling time versus its objective truth.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.
The problem with this line of thinking is that it presupposes there is separation between what is useful and what is true, which is a lie against the truth, since what is useful and what is true are one, since Jesus Christ is infinitely true and useful at the same time, and is the center of all things.
Part of human divinity is God's genius, which is generative and which we use in service of our calling to make Earth into Heaven and dominate and cover the Earth with people. This requires four domains of genius, which are strategic, tactical, logistical, and diplomatic. As it pertains to time as a dimension, although it is flexible relative to the general theory of relativity, it is real, and we, genius agents and children of God, note it using numbers, which are also imbedded in reality, to organize our logistics, which are also imbedded in reality, since time is a dimension and all things do not exist at the same place at the same time, therefore a need arises between people and their need to coordinate for trade.
Whatever that time organization is called, it's still necessary, therefore the assertion that time is useful and a lie, is itself a lie.
If Sivers assertion is carried to it's logical conclusion, it essentially would send many people to hell, because it's an argument for the separation of words and actions and reality itself, which is fundamentally a materialist worldview, which since it doesn't include the spiritual, is mamed from the start.
I would humbly recommend investigating and perhaps in time integrating, "Truth and useful are the same," so that you can spot ideologies that don't align with reality and either be aware of them or reject them outright, because they are deeply destructive to humanity.