What's an example of a "point" obtaining independently of persons?Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:18 pmTerrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:16 pm That's obviously not the point to everyone. Points are subjective.![]()
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That's obviously not always true!
If you are going to keep defaulting to the exceptions I will except your exceptions till you are exceptionally exhausted to except exceptions.
Is morality objective or subjective?
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And that's why you are fucking stupid.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:18 pm You don't understand the distinction between morality and other things if you think that death by a gamma ray burst is morally wrong.
Morality requires agency.
Death by asteroid is not "morally wrong", so I guess you'll organise the popcorn and we can sing kumbaya for the extinction.
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Idiot. I am a constructivist. You haven't figured that out yet ?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:21 pm What's an example of a "point" obtaining independently of persons?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct ... f_science)
And then... This constructivist (while opposing the philosophy of objectivism) is saying that human extinction is objectively wrong.Constructivism opposes the philosophy of objectivism, embracing the belief that a human can come to know the truth about the natural world not mediated by scientific approximations with different degrees of validity and accuracy.
In so far as the words "objectivity" and "wrong" have any nominal moral meaning.
You keep conflating social norms (behaviour of agents) with morality (human survival and well-being).
Your conception of morality is immoral in that it places undue import on harm-by-humans.
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It would make it a contradiction.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:27 pm Which would make it odd that you'd claim that there are points that obtain independently of persons, no?
Which is a deficiency of language, not a deficiency of morality.
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So why would you claim it? (Aside from your desire to keep trolling)Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:28 pmIt would make it a contradiction.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:27 pm Which would make it odd that you'd claim that there are points that obtain independently of persons, no?
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Because I don't subscribe to your prescriptive social norms of non-contradiction.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:28 pm So why would you claim it? (Aside from your desire to keep trolling)
I can demonstrate Dialetheism
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Sure, so you're a constructivist, but you claim that points can obtain independently of persons. So why when I asked you to give an example did you just talk about being a constructivist rather than giving an example of an objective point? How about the example now?Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:30 pmBecause I don't subscribe to your prescriptive social norms of non-contradiction.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:28 pm So why would you claim it? (Aside from your desire to keep trolling)
I can demonstrate Dialetheism
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Here is a logical system which I constructed in which P ∧ ¬P ⇔ True.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:32 pm Sure, so you're a constructivist, but you claim that points can obtain independently of persons. So why when I asked you to give an example did you just talk about being a constructivist rather than giving an example of an objective point? How about the example now?
Thus empirically violating the LNC.
You have some deep misunderstanding of what logic is and what it's good for...
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How about the example of a person-independent point now?Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:33 pmHere is a logical system which I constructed in which P ∧ ¬P ⇔ True.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:32 pm Sure, so you're a constructivist, but you claim that points can obtain independently of persons. So why when I asked you to give an example did you just talk about being a constructivist rather than giving an example of an objective point? How about the example now?
Thus empirically violating the LNC.
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You have some deep misunderstanding of what logic is and what it's good for...
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So, as a nominalist, what do you think humans nominally use the word "objective" to refer to if human-independence is Philosophically impossible?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:34 pm How about the example of a person-independent point now?
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Isn't it that you think that [person]-independence is philosophically impossible and possible, thus there can be a person-independent point? (The latter being something you claimed.) So can you give the example of the person-independent point now?Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:36 pmSo, as a nominalist, what do you think humans nominally use the word "objective" to refer to if human-independence is Philosophically impossible?Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:34 pm How about the example of a person-independent point now?
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Why? It's not at all my view that objectivity is person-independence.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:39 pm Isn't it that you think that [person]-independence is philosophically impossible and possible, thus there can be a person-independent point? (The latter being something you claimed.) So can you give the example of the person-independent point now?
That's YOUR view.
Objectivity is a socially and subjective construct in my view. It's a function of consensus.
So when I say that extinction is objectively wrong I am not using your conception of objectivity. But you sure are mis-interpreting me as if I am.
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Right, so what was the exception to "that's obviously not the point to everyone. Points are subjective."Skepdick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:42 pmWhy? It's not at all my view that objectivity is person-independence.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:39 pm Isn't it that you think that [person]-independence is philosophically impossible and possible, thus there can be a person-independent point? (The latter being something you claimed.) So can you give the example of the person-independent point now?
That's YOUR view.
Objectivity is a socially and subjective construct in my view. It's a function of consensus.
An exception is _______?
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