RE: Euthyphros dilemma...
January 10, 2014 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2014 at 10:23 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
Hm, not sure I agree there. If something is externally imbued onto something by a mind, I don't think it's coherent to claim it can be an essential property of that thing or the thing imbuing it. After all, color isn't a a real property of objects, but a mental interpretation of sense data. But neither is color an essential property of the mind, it's something the mind creates and we experience as being part of the thing, when we are the key component.
So, I don't think it's quite right to say value is a property of mental thngs, but rather that value is a construction of the mental which it treats as a property of other things, much like how when I say something is tasty, I don't mean there is an objective property of what I'm eating that itself is 'taste', I mean it is appealling to my sense of taste.
So, I don't think it's quite right to say value is a property of mental thngs, but rather that value is a construction of the mental which it treats as a property of other things, much like how when I say something is tasty, I don't mean there is an objective property of what I'm eating that itself is 'taste', I mean it is appealling to my sense of taste.
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