Moral facts are mental-states of an individual with a physiological basis [neurons, brain and body] with potentials to act morally within a moral framework and system [FSK].
I define 'morality' [loosely] as, the framework and system of reality and knowledge which justify moral facts that favors the well being of the individual[s]' good behavior and avoid evil behavior - therefrom to humanity.
Note the criticalness and emphasis on the individual person.
A moral fact is a mental-state supported by physiological facts and has the potential to act morally within a moral FSK.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:50 am Pay attention. Deduction, induction and abduction are ways of reaching a conclusion from a premise or premises. And I'm saying a moral conclusion doesn't and can't follow from a factual premise by any method: deduction, induction or abduction - unless the conclusion is assumed as or in a premise, in which case the argument is a question-begging fallacy.
The fact that natural science conclusions are inductive but empirically testable is what makes them radically different from moral and aesthetic - non-factual - conclusions.
How could a moral conclusion be inductive or abductive? Again, the question is incoherent.
A fact [factual confirmation] is specific to a FSR/FSK.
A scientific conclusion [factual confirmation of a predicted-fact] is verified and justified within a scientific FSK.
A scientific conclusion via its FSK is based on inductive reasoning.
A moral fact is similar to a scientific fact in its verification and justification processes based on induction.
A moral conclusion [factual confirmation of a predicted-fact] is verified and justified within a moral FSK.
Note this very critical point;
-those so-called moral assertions, moral judgments, moral statements, moral opinions and moral whatever made by individual[s] and groups - are NOT moral facts. They are not those moral facts as moral norms/standards which are subjected to being verified and justified within a moral FSK.
For example if a convicted murder-X confessed "I believe it is right to kill Mr. Y" or the father of Y condemned 'it is morally wrong that X had killed Mr. Y,' the above examples of beliefs of supposedly 'morally' related statements are not moral facts per se.
They above acts and beliefs are merely variances from the moral norm 'no human ought to kill humans.'
The difference between scientific facts and moral facts is purely and most significantly based on the different FSKs they are conditioned upon.
I believe your problem is you are so ignorant and dogmatic in thinking Science is merely confined to physical states and that you are ignorant of 'what is objectivity.'
To you, since moral elements are not physical states, therefore they cannot be facts which are objective.
Note, mental states within reality [all-there-is] which are not physical states of reality are also scientific facts when justified within its specific FSK. Note,
Thus, the existence of the mental states, i.e. the potentials are scientific-facts within the scientific and affective-science FSK.Affective science is the scientific study of emotion or affect. This includes the study of emotion elicitation, emotional experience and the recognition of emotions in others.
Of particular relevance are the nature of feeling, mood, emotionally-driven behaviour, decision-making, attention and self-regulation, as well as the underlying physiology and neuroscience of the emotions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_science#:
The individuals' expression of emotional feelings are subjective emotional feelings, not the fact-of-emotions per se.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion
- For example the anger-emotion is a fact of Affective-Science as a mental state and potential.
The rage and anger expressed by individuals are subjective thus are not a fact of affective-science as verified and justified within its specific FSK.
Thus the fact of anger-emotion is the evolved mental-biological state [& potential] represented by its specific physiology and neuro-algorithm as verified within its specific FSK.
My point:
Moral facts are represented by mental-biological states within an individual person.
Moral facts are not like physical facts, e.g. a stone, tree or a sun.
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