RE: Subjective Morality?
October 26, 2018 at 9:52 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2018 at 10:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that you could if you made the effort. You're a smart guy. Those two items, however, sound like the assumptions you had coming in. More an offhand dismissal than a justification for it.
The statement implicates scientific inquiry, fwiw. Because cornell realism, for example... is a direct and explicit transportation of the ideological assumptions of scientific inquiry to the moral arena...if it's propositions were uniformly either trivially true or equivocation..so too would the product of those assumptions be in any other arena. Evolutionary theory..trivially true, or equivocation. Astronomy and cosmology, trivially true or equivocation. One of the great hooks of that specific variant is that it can draw a direct criticism of things that most people take to be true about the world and about facts and how we come to them and say..well..if you're being consistent, then these things are like those things. If you're not being consistent.......
: throws hands in the air :
Maybe you could pick any of the realist variants on the flowchart and explain what you don't understand about them, or why you think that the answer which typifies that position is trivially true, or an equivocation?
The statement implicates scientific inquiry, fwiw. Because cornell realism, for example... is a direct and explicit transportation of the ideological assumptions of scientific inquiry to the moral arena...if it's propositions were uniformly either trivially true or equivocation..so too would the product of those assumptions be in any other arena. Evolutionary theory..trivially true, or equivocation. Astronomy and cosmology, trivially true or equivocation. One of the great hooks of that specific variant is that it can draw a direct criticism of things that most people take to be true about the world and about facts and how we come to them and say..well..if you're being consistent, then these things are like those things. If you're not being consistent.......
: throws hands in the air :
Maybe you could pick any of the realist variants on the flowchart and explain what you don't understand about them, or why you think that the answer which typifies that position is trivially true, or an equivocation?
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