RE: Abortion is morally wrong
June 22, 2014 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2014 at 2:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
No, I am not confusing ontology and functionality.
Ontological definition is always arbitrary. It is only suitable for use as a tool of comveniemce in discussion and then only if all parties involved have no relevant objections to a particular arbitrary ontology favored by one party.
There is clearly no such agreement for this discussion. Therefore any functionally or consequentially based classification favored by any party became as sound a basis for discussion as any ontological definition favored by another. I just chose mine for the sake of this argument.
Ontological definition is always arbitrary. It is only suitable for use as a tool of comveniemce in discussion and then only if all parties involved have no relevant objections to a particular arbitrary ontology favored by one party.
There is clearly no such agreement for this discussion. Therefore any functionally or consequentially based classification favored by any party became as sound a basis for discussion as any ontological definition favored by another. I just chose mine for the sake of this argument.