Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:37 am
Here are two assertions.
1 The best ice cream flavour is vanilla.
2 The best ice cream flavour is not vanilla.
Leaving aside the relevance for morality - do objectivists here think there's a fact of the matter that settles this disagreement?
For example, if everyone agreed with 1, would that make it a fact that the best ice cream flavour is vanilla?
Or if humans were neurologically programmed with 'vanilla-is-best', would that make it a fact that the best ice cream flavour is vanilla?
The fundamental principle is;
what is fact is conditioned upon a specific human-based FSR-FSK.
As there must be a proper FSR-FSK, say a human based Vanilla-tasting-FSK, in place to start with.
If everyone agree therein, 'The best ice cream flavour is vanilla' then it is a fact as conditioned upon the human based Vanilla-tasting-FSK which is objective.
But the objectivity of the fact is relative to the credibility and reliability of the FSK.
If the FSR-FSK is based on scientific evidences from testing of the specific neural correlates, e.g. when a person acknowledges the vanilla is the best flavour the activity intensity of the neural correlates is higher than other tastes EVERY TIME, this will reinforce the fact that 'The best ice cream flavour is vanilla' is an objective fact.
However, this objective fact is not absolute but always qualify against its specific human-based FSK it is conditioned upon.
There are many ways the above tests and can be done and repeated to get the same results.
If say, 2 The best ice cream flavour is not vanilla, this can be verified and justified via a specific human based FSK based on the intensities of of its neural correlates in comparison with other tastes.
So, IF humans were neurologically programmed with 'vanilla-is-best', and this is verified and justified via a credible scientific based FSK, then that would that make it a fact that the best ice cream flavour is vanilla as qualified to that specific FSK.
WHO ARE YOU TO SAY OTHERWISE?
ALL humans are neurologically programmed to favor [
tastes and feelings] sugar.
Thus is a fact [biological fact] that all humans favor the taste of sugar.
This is an objective fact and not something that is subjective.
This can be scientifically tested to its specific neural correlates.
But of course this must be qualified to a human-based FSR-FSK to ensure credibility and a high degree of objectivity.
Human preference for sweet foods is universal, with hedonic responses changing over a person’s lifetime [1]. Sweet molecules in nature are sugars found primarily in plants (i.e., fructose, sucrose, and glucose), in addition to lactose found in many species’ milk, all of which provide a source of energy and sweetness. It has been hypothesized that sweetness preference may exist to identify energy-rich foods (i.e., containing readily available glucose) [2], which provides necessary metabolic fuel for the brain [3].
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146214/