(October 26, 2018 at 10:09 pm)robvalue Wrote: ...
It’s a loaded question.
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This is reminding me of the school playground occurrences when some older child asked e.g. T-Rex or Slade? (or was it Bowie? Not sure, I was only 5 or 6 years old). My reply was "Ugh?" Later I asked my older sister what that was about and was told it was about musical preferences and not important.
Observing the playground throng over the next few months I discovered that it was important with regards to credibility / pecking order / acceptance into an in-group, specifically when there was the question "Leeds Utd or Liverpool?" (yes, this was the early '70s) - a 'wrong' answer might earn you a punch on the nose. I learned that the best answer was "Rugby".
So when faced with the "cognitivist or non-cognitivist" question, I can only reply... "please explain to me why I should care?"
Of course, it's not simply a childhood thing...
In the US: Liberal or Conservative?
In Straya: Holden or Ford?
Here, there's a lovely lady I know from the local Socrates Cafe (meetup), she has a medical background and is smart as a whip. But do you know how I know that she is deep-down evil and depraved? She chooses Coke over Pepsi and Potter over Tolkien. It's hard to identify with anyone like that.
The PURPOSE of life is to replicate our DNA ................. (from Darwin)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)