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The Ultimate Value and the signs of it in ourselves.
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RE: The Ultimate Value and the signs of it in ourselves.
As in the other thread, I noted that you can have objective value after value has been subjectively defined. For example, the "value" of a human being is 1, and the "value" of anything not a human being is 0. There, done. It's now an objective "value". The problem is, that it doesn't mean anything. To just say that because "value" also has another meaning apart from this defined one and to try and slip that one in is an equivocation fallacy. You can't use the same term for two different things at once.

I can equally well say the "value" of a human is whatever I think of that human, ranging from 0 to 1. It's now entirely subjective.

Things like mass have been subjectively defined, and can then be objectively measured. But the results have real, practical applications. Whereas just defining people to have objective "value" is of no use whatsoever to anything.
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RE: The Ultimate Value and the signs of it in ourselves. - by robvalue - January 16, 2016 at 6:19 am

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