RE: What is 'objective' value?
January 14, 2016 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2016 at 10:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 13, 2016 at 11:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Of course the word can has multiple denotations (which is different from connotation BTW). If you cannot figure out which denotation is relevant to the conversation you might want to have your head checked out.
Your insistence that it must be transcendence of the physical shows that you don't engage in the conversation in good faith, relevance being decided by your preferences. Is that how serious this is, a word game? Why not just say;
"I demand that objective value/morality be non-physical in nature and/or origin - this is my requirement"
....? I ask, because it's clear that the word transcendence has been used to avoid openly making this demand. The irony in your "correcting" me over the terms denotation and connotation will be lost, on you, I'm sure. Let's run with it though..a little more honestly this time. We won't use the word transcend, we'll say -precisely- what we mean.
Objective value/morality cannot be physical in nature or origin, and must be intrinsic. Gee, I can't imagine the problems with this statement..in regards to human beings.
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