RE: Objective morality
April 18, 2012 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 12:10 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm)genkaus Wrote: Rules of logic don't have anything to do with consistency.Are you saying that logic and reason have no abiding value? If they are not consistent doesn't that make the pursuit of knowledge futile?
(April 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm)genkaus Wrote: The known physical laws are mostly consistent but fail in situations such as while approaching a singularity.From this you conclude what? That the universe has no underlying order? That it is completely random? Does the validity of mathematics disappear in a black hole too? Or do even black holes have rules to live by.
(April 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm)genkaus Wrote: No, even when considered as a whole, the entropy (disorder) within the universe is constantly increasing. That is another thing that contradicts your "integrated whole" idea.I do not currently have the knowledge to affirm or deny this. I thought this was still an open question in astrophysics, whether the universe expands indefinitely or collapses back on itself. Either way the fact that the physical universe changes state does not undermine the idea that reality's structure (the truths of math, validity of logic, etc.) manifest in the physical is different from one place to another or under some conditions and not others. To assert otherwise is deny the possibility of acquiring knowledge.