RE: Beauty, Morality, God, and a Table
August 22, 2023 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2023 at 10:27 am by Angrboda.)
(August 22, 2023 at 10:22 am)FrustratedFool Wrote:(August 22, 2023 at 10:18 am)Angrboda Wrote: It's a hypothetical, thus a and b are moot. If we're talking about something other than a hypothetical then the principle of insufficient reason need not apply.
In the hypothetical a would still apply, surely? Otherwise you could apply (misapply?) the principle of insufficient reason to the hypothetical, '10 people look at a green, and 3 declare it to be frubious, 7 don't'. Or something like that. If it makes no sense to talk of something being correct/incorrect then it still be nonsense even in a hypothetical scenario.
As for b, my hypothetical assumed a real world context.
I added to my post. Since I framed my answer in terms of who is most likely wrong, it evades that problem as positing a truth value to something that lacks truth values is also wrong.
In the real world we can only make statements about what we know. Since I doubt you've actually polled some forty odd people, you're clearly simply adding to the hypothetical by stipulating that it's a real world question. That adds no information about the specifics as they are still hypothetical.