No. It is disgusting to discover one has been lied to, morale-busting to realize you've been laboring under a delusion, annoying to get or be given a wrong answer. The mind is not attracted to untruth, except so as to undo the untruth: e.g.some people are attracted to controversy because they like to expose an error. Even in this it is the truth that attracts them.
Everything you say, is relative to your faith, isn’t it...or what you would call the truth.
Actually, what I said is accurate and rightly compels assent. It will stand up to scrutiny. It is suported by evidence. I'll grant you that this requires an a priori respect for evidence.
"Why does it reduce to absurdum?"
Because if you apply the premises of "there's no truth" or "truth is un-knowable" consistently, it de-motivates discussion, de-motivates exploration and discovery, de-motivates thinking, and finally de-motivates living.
"Of course it’s a discussion-stopper. Why do you think these discussions have been going on forever?"
People discuss because they're motivated to correct error and get at the right view of things.
(I'll grant that there are low motivations, too: the desire to grandstand for your friends, the desire to vent negative feelings and inflict emotional pain--- Merciful Lord, I don't know why some people do keep arguing on and on!!!.)
But if you keep spraying on the Universal Solvent called "Truth is Un-knowable", the conversation will dissolve rather quickly. People will not see what is the point of saying anything.
I’m not disgusted or morale-busted if someone lies to me, I just chalk it up as human nature.
We don’t appear to be de-motivated, do we?
Our discussions aren’t stopped, and we’re just a drop in time compared to how many other discussions like this have taken place.