Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
You're talking like a robot not a man again.
I am talking like somebody who understands what is necessary for objective measurement.
There's no point to further discussion if you are measuring "accuracy" differently to me.
I am using the word accurate in a way that everybody uses it within the context I spoke, where calibrated mechanisms aren't required. You are attempting to inflict a different context.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
Am I (me, not some generic "philosopher" that you don't like) actually using the words wrongness and murder in some exotic way? I told you it's a waste of time trying to prove murder is wrong because that is a tautology wrongful killing is wrong doesn't need experimental proof.
A tautology IS a proof in the disciplines of Mathematics and Logic.
Not a maths question so it doesn't matter. A tautology is something that does not require a proof.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
If you are demanding "experimental proof" (which is a rather idiosyncratic phrasing from the perspective of somebody who understands the difference between the empirical and the logical realms) then you have to tell us what that means.
So I am not demanding a proof, because it is a tautology.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
What experiment/measurement would satisfy your request?
No further evidence is required, what with it being a tautology.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
And colours are rather a matter of convention too. Are there really 7 colours in the rainbow?
Yes, they are made of convention! And conventionally speaking
this is objectively red.
That's how the consensus theory of truth works.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
The question I was mainly asking was, if you think that killing kittens is morally wrong, but Vegetable Ambulance says it is not morally wrong, then if that is a factual question, what is the fact that shows which of you is mistaken?
And that's precisely the reason I asked you the question...
What "fact" would show that I am mistaken about
THIS COLOR BEING BLUE..
And yet any non-idiot in conventional society would agree that I am wrong. Because...?
That depends on the shade of blue. Pick one halfway between green and blue and people start to say "I can see how that would be green to you", while others take some sort of offence and ask "how can you call that green".
We don't need an FSK of colours-proper to fix that (it would fail to mention mention orange anyway because colour-proper contains only black, white, green andnotblackwhiteorgreen"), what is happening here is that we are treating the things that are extremely easy to agree on as objective fact and then getting into trouble when the green/blue areas come into focus.
And that's before raising the issue of cultures with no word for Blue or some other obvious colour. Or considering history, given that the colour orange is named after the fruit, meaning our ancestors did away with what we consider quite a large chunk of the visible spectrum until somebody wanted to have a name for a red that has some yellow in it.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
One exists because there is actually soething to measure.
There is nothing to measure until you define the units.
Meh, you can't have units of speculative nothingness, there must be something measurable before you can start arguing about whether to measure it in inches or centimeres or whatnot.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
The other cannot exist because there is not.
This claim carries the strongest burden of proof in human intellectual affairs.
A proof of impossibility.
I expect you'll get "bored" right about now.
I'm pretty bored it's true. But I will power through it because I have such deep respect for you and I truly value these important conversations.
I am quite happy for somebody to discover a physical correlate of goodness to measure. But there are no candidates and there is no scope so it's inconceivable. It would be a shame if somebody tried to fix that by just finding some other thing they can measure (opinion surverys for instance) and said that this must be the source of measured truth.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
There is a well understood causal relationship between human experiences of redness and wavelengths of light.
There is? You must be overlooking some of the details here, champ. I just decided that the wavelength that triggers "redness" in you triggers "blueness" in me.
You want to show me your evidence that proves that I am wrong?
No. I can live with you not knowing what blue is. Or I can live with you having a "personal truth" about red that doesn't correspond with everyone else's.
If you were telling the truth and had aa reliable experience of "blueness" whenever you saw the colour that we call red, you would call it red anyway and use the language of redness correctly. It might even be true already, and neither of us would ever know.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
I've never once argued that murder isn't wrong. I don't think that Pete, Terrapin or Sculptor has either.
Well, yes. Captain Semantics. You've argued that murder is not OBJECTIVELY wrong.
Which is precisely equivalent to arguing that
that this it not OBJECTIVELY red.
You want to bite the bullet now and pick a side?
Murder is wrong by definition. To say it is not objective is to say that batchelors aren't objectively unmarried men. It seems like a pointless quible to me, I see only distinction without difference in it.
You can say red and blue are objective qualities, and conversationally that is ok, but there's not a lot of scope to extrapolate from it. The truth is that when we look at shades of colours it is quite normal for it to break down into subjectivity, so that apparent objectivity was just a case of there not being anyone in the room to disagree.
Whether a particular act of killing counts as murder only seems objective when there is similarly nobody present to say not so. It's extremely common to have legal cases arguing over whether a particular killing is justified, and that is how its murderness gets decided.
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
I could mention to the guy that in some places there are killings that we would class as murder here but they would consider quite allowable under local circumstances.
I could mention that guy which calls
this color blue but that's not a social norm in most countries.
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
And then we would likely agree that those other people would be morally improved by agreeing with us, but that's sort of the most reliable moral constant isn't it, that everybody else would be better people if they shared my views?
Well, obviously! That's how objective morality works.
So objective morality just means that it is objectively true that people mostly think their inherited set of cultural norms, mixed with a handful of personal opinions, and subject to little internal consistency, is the best?
Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:07 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:44 am
That's a normal way to think about belief, but an unusual way to be thinking about undemonstable knowledge.
All knowledge "undemonstrable" if you cling onto Quine's
Hold true come what may
No need to sweat the small stuff. It is a normal way to think about belief and an unusual way to think about knowledge.