RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 29, 2025 at 1:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2025 at 1:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Opinions can, in fact, be facts. Both in common usage and in analytical metaethics. All cognitivist positions purport to report facts. Subjectivism reports on a fact of the subject. Relativism reports on a fact of the subjects group. Objectivism reports on a fact of the object. The fact of a persons opinion is the truthmaking property in subjectivist metaethics. Not any specific fact assertion (or that assertions objective truth-value), we can plug anything in there. Not because society says so. Not facts of the matter in question. Those are irrelevant facts to metaethical subjectivism. That's not what morality is about, according to metaethical subjectivism.
It is my opinion that evolutionary biology is true. Does that being my opinion make evolutionary biology false, not objective, relative, or subjective? This is why I say "I have opinions, you have opinions, we all have opinions". OFC we do. What those opinions are grounded in determines the accurate classification of the assertion in general and in moral systems or assertions, in the semantics I'm using.
It is my opinion that evolutionary biology is true. Does that being my opinion make evolutionary biology false, not objective, relative, or subjective? This is why I say "I have opinions, you have opinions, we all have opinions". OFC we do. What those opinions are grounded in determines the accurate classification of the assertion in general and in moral systems or assertions, in the semantics I'm using.
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