(April 18, 2013 at 8:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: And how is this person’s will or opinion in any way objective? The law is objective only in the sense that the symbolic expression is observable. That to which the symbolic expression refers, the person’s will or opinion, is not objective.
Did you misread my statement? I said that law - once established - is independent of a person's will or opinion. That is what makes it objective.
(April 18, 2013 at 8:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Not so. The IQ test measures the efficacy and efficiency of the brain as a physical symbolic processor.
That would be an extremely limited and incorrect view of intelligence. Your intelligence represents things way beyond your brain's processing power.
(April 18, 2013 at 8:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Objective things can be quantified, but not all things can be objectively quantified.
Given that you agree that law is objective and yet cannot be quantified - this statement is not true.
(April 18, 2013 at 8:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Once again, objective things can be quantified, but not all things can be objectively quantified. Following surgery, hospital staffers ask patients to rate the degree of their pain on a scale of 1 (annoying) to 10 (unbearable). I do not believe such a survey objectively measures any real similarity of pain experience between a pansy like me and a Navy Seal. Qualitative experiences lack the attributes that make physical events empirically verifiable. What the Navy Seal experiences as a 3, I might rate as an 8. And even then, how we rate our pain might depend on our moods or other factors.
Like I said, you are wrong and your statement here shows absence on knowledge upon the subject. Check out what a dolorometer does.
