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God can make infinitely more special/valuable things than this universe
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RE: God can make infinitely more special/valuable things than this universe
(November 25, 2018 at 12:42 am)blue grey brain Wrote:
(November 25, 2018 at 12:06 am)Belaqua Wrote: Purpose is what a thing is for. Value is what it's worth.
Regardless of what label we use, we can seek to objectively describe the goals wrt functions of species in nature.
In other words teleonomy apart from being a purpose driven language, is being used to describe quite real biological phenomena, which is quantifiable in terms of biology/physics equations/science.

Does the language of teleonomy tells us what it is good to do? That is, does it tell us what thing or action has a greater value than any other? 

Normally "value" refers to this sort of thing. 

The purpose of the vacuum cleaner is to keep your carpet clean. Whether a clean carpet is good or not is a value question.
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RE: God can make infinitely more special/valuable things than this universe - by Belacqua - November 25, 2018 at 12:51 am

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