RE: Subjective Morality?
October 29, 2018 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2018 at 7:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 29, 2018 at 7:11 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, if it was not possible to derive scientific facts, it wouldn’t be possible to make any of the advances in technology we have made. We'd have no way of building predictive models.Well, I mean we might have blundered into a few even though we had our facts wrong..but in the general I agree. Moral realism contends that we have knowledge like that, that moral facts are like those facts.
They would expect roughly the same effect. In the absence of a commitment to realism, we would not have made advances that we have. We would have poor predictive models of the consequences of our systems.
Quote:It would appear to have even greater implications. If it’s not possible, for example, to establish the mass of an object as a scientific fact, then the mass must be somehow be indeterminate or constantly changing. It would seem to be some kind of bizarre dream world with no rules.-and if it's not possible to know the moral status of x then it must somehow be indeterminate or constantly changing.
Quote:(Technically we determine scientific facts about our observations of reality and not reality itself; that’s neither here nor there in this regard.)Moral facts would be determined in the same way.
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PS: you seem to have admitted that the existence of "moral facts" is an unfalsifiable hypothesis, if there is no way to tell the difference between it being true or false.
As unfalsifiable as the hypothesis of scientific realism, at least.
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