FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 9:43 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 5:54 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 4:51 am
That other thread is just absurdly stupid and I'm not going to touch it with a shitty stick.
A defining feature of facts, the concept that real people use (and which has nothing to do with any FSK thing) is that we use it to determine true and false statements. If there is a moral fact that it is morally wrong to drown a puppy in the toilet, and if there is also a moral fact that interractions between humans and animals are not moral matters, then you have used the word "fact" in error.
That's what fact does, what it means is what we do with it. You routinely misuse the concept. you have been aware of this problem for years and have done nothing but try to not deal with it.
You are bad at this stuff.
Actually your use of 'fact' as confined to states of affairs, proposition, concept [atomic] and likes are the shitty one without any solid reference to reality.
Yes, there is some use for your definition of fact, but it has to depend on the specific "invented" FSK which is shitty itself.
Note the more general acceptable definition of what is fact [the concept that real people use ].
A
fact is something that is true.
The usual test for a statement of fact is
verifiability, that is whether it can be demonstrated to correspond to experience.
Standard reference works are often used to check facts.
Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement by experiments or other means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact
Surely scientific facts has something to do with the scientific FSK and these are translatable to utility for mankind?
You deny that?
I ask Peter Holmes for his origins of 'what is fact' and the supporting reference, but so far he had failed to do so out of ignorance or fear of being exposed as a fraud. What about you, can you tell me the historical origin of 'what is fact'.
How about you starting with Russell's Logical Atomism, then logical facts, then taken by Carnap to the condemned logical positivists and therefrom improvised without any groundings by the current analytic linguistic and ordinary language philosophers.
I have been refreshing and reading on this recently.
So your sense of 'what is fact' [accepted by some influential philosophers but it] is actually shit and you want to use such shit to counter my moral fact which is more Soundly related to the WIKI's definition above.
Just don't make noises, show me origin of your term 'fact' and justification that it is most sound amidst to all the critiques against it?
The above is merely noises.
The simple fact of the matter is this. Your "moral FSK" is made up by people just agreeing that X is worse than Y and assigning "reasonable" numbers to quantify such. Anyone who disagrees with the numbers and assignations can just make their own "moral FSK" with numbers that suit themselves.
I have not presented my Moral FSK in detail and fully.
However in principle, my Moral FSK MUST and will have near equivalent credibility to the scientific FSK.
It will be like a credible legal FSK which will rely on scientific facts where necessary to general legal facts.
The inputs of my proposed Moral FSK will be 90% scientific facts and supported by the most rational philosophical reasonings.
After that, you have two of these "moral FSK" things, which each considers the others to be engines for the manufacture of lies. Both with equal claims to moral fact.
It is possible but note the example of the Theological FSK claim of creation versus the Scientific FSK on Theory of Evolution and Cosmology. Surely all rational people will recognize the distinct difference in terms of credibility between the two FSKs.
I have claimed my proposed moral FSK MUST and will have near equivalent credibility to the scientific FSK.
And by your definition of fact, both nonetheless are converting opinion into fact by a process of assigning numbers that don't measure anything to opinions.
Nope those measurements are a side issue.
When a credible legal FSK generate a legal fact, e.g. "X Murdered Y", based heavily on DNA evidence, there is no such assigning of numbers.
But the way we use the word fact out in the world as living human beings does not permit that foolishness. If there are mutually exclusive claims to a fact, then one or both MUST be false, they cannot both be facts. That's a simple truth about what the word fact has to mean. If you have come up with a definition of fact that allows you to break that rule, your definition doesn't work.
Who give you such authority to assert this an absolute command? You're a God?
"
as living human beings" is only confined to a specific FSK [as i had claimed, it is improvised from the logical positivist's FSK]. Not every living human being recognized such specific FSK as absolute or authority.
This is like the Law of the Excluded Middle which does serves a purpose but it is limited within defined situations and thus must be qualified and can never be absolute.
The LEM has loads of criticisms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_ex ... Criticisms
If the Bible gives you a "moral fact" that in cases of pregnancy where fatherhood of the fetus is in doubt, then the bitter waters must be drunk so that God will kill the baby if it is the result of infidelity to punish the mother (and thus the biblical FSK sets specific terms under which abortion is required), but the Vegetable Aqueduct moral FSK says that abortion is totally wrong. That isn't two facts where one wins because the "FSK" it derives from is considered 42% better than the other one. It is a situation where either one or both claims cannot be facts at all.
Both are facts [as per my definition] but we have to review the credibility of the FSK and the justifications they are generated.
You are ignorant of many things.
Let take two persons arguing about whether chattel slavery is right or wrong, say 10,000 years ago.
If I am one of them then, I would have presented my argument [C-slavery is wrong] logically, rationally, philosophically and soundly as a moral fact, say 90/100.
The other person would say my claim is not a fact and thus 100% wrong while his claim [c-slavery is right] is a 100/100 fact because
his God said so.
But the real fact is there is a
moral potential within all the human brains that is unfolding gradually and is supporting the moral fact that I am claiming.
10,000 years later, i.e. 2022, the evidence is supporting my claim, i.e. the
moral potential had gradually unfolded to the extent that all sovereign nations has made C-slavery illegal. This event obviously must be supported by
neural changes in the brains of the majority or a critical mass to generate such a state.
However the above factual
moral potential [of ought-not-ness] within only affect the legal FSK at the present and the moral conscience within the moral FSK I am proposing.
As I had stated, I have not explained my proposed moral FSK fully. One additional information is my proposed Moral FSK will have to consider the expected
neural changes [
currently trending since 10,000 years ago] within all human beings in the future to facilitate the natural inherent moral facts that are basically supported by the scientific FSK.
There are more to it re my Moral FSK.
Point is you are condemning my moral FSK based on ignorance, dogmatism and arrogance.
However note my basic claim,
my Moral FSK MUST and will have near equivalent credibility to the scientific FSK.